PJMedia.com reports: “The New York State Assembly this week passed a controversial ‘Medical Aid in Dying Act’ that would allow mentally competent adults with less than six months to live the option of taking a lethal cocktail of drugs.

The bill passed comfortably, 81-67, even ‘with more than 10 Democrats joining the minority Republicans in voting no,’ according to Gothamist. 

A similar measure died not-so-quietly in the New York State Senate last year…”