Persons, which was a bill to legalize euthanasia. After being debated for months, the Ohio Legislature overwhelmingly rejected the bill. Euthanasia reemerged in 1976 and California was the first state to legalize a patient's right to refuse life-prolonging treatment. The Legislature passed the Natural Death Act, which allows for living wills, and a request to a doctor to withhold or withdraw life sustaining treatment. The living will basically includes their request to die, and then also what their wishes are as far as what they want done with their assets. In 1990, the Supreme Court case, Cruzan v. Missouri, recognized the principle that a person has constitutionally protected right to refuse unwanted medical treatment. On March 6, 1996, for the first time in U.S. history, in the case Washington v. Glucksberg, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th circuit court in San Francisco overturned a Washington State law that made assisted suicide a felony. The court noted that, under present law, a dying patient on life support may legally hav
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