BATAVIA — A bill to allow mentally competent, terminally ill adults to request medication from their doctors to hasten the patients’ deaths awaits Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature, state Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, told local residents during an open house Thursday.

The Medical Aid in Dying Act allows a terminally ill adult with a prognosis of six months or less to live to ask for this medication to speed up his or her death provided the requirements set forth in the act are met. It also gives a health care provider and other people, including the physician who prescribes the medication, certain protection and immunity.

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