title: State legislatures become beehives of right-to-die statutes.
abstract: Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Cruzan, state legislatures have passed an unprecedented amount of new advance directives legislation or changes in their existing living will laws. Forty states now have laws on advance directives. Some of the more recent actions, as well as one state's public initiative, are summarized in the following articles.
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D016414:Resuscitation Orders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012297:Right to Die / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States