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OLYMPIA, Wash. — A 66-year-old woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to die under Washington state’s new assisted- suicide law, an advocacy group said Friday.
Linda Fleming of Sequim died Thursday night after taking drugs prescribed under the “Death with Dignity” law that took effect in March, said Compassion & Choices of Washington.
The organization said Fleming was diagnosed last month with advanced pancreatic cancer. She would have had to have been diagnosed by two doctors as terminal to qualify for assisted suicide.
