In the United States, there are only a handful of states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide—Georgia is not one of them. Those states include California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Washington D.C. And, many people facing terminal illnesses believe it is their individual right to die as they choose and when they choose to.
In 2014, Brittany Maynard—a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal brain cancer—moved from California to Oregon to end her life. At the time, California had not yet legalized assisted suicides. The remaining states—Georgia included—have laws prohibiting physician-assisted suicide.