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#safeguards

The governor will not sign the version of the MAID bill that the state Legislature approved earlier this year. Rather, Hochul said, she would ink a revised version of the same legislation, agreed upon with the sponsors and legislative leaders, that will be introduced when the Assembly and state Senate reconvene in January. Hochul made the announcement in an Albany Times-Union opinion piece on Wednesday, in which she called the bill a way to speed up the dying process for terminally ill New Yorkers

Maureen Slough's decision for assisted suicide in Switzerland was communicated to her family via WhatsApp, leaving her relatives unaware until after her death.