Doctor Who Championed Right to Die Ends His Life

November 6, 2015

(USA Today) – Dr. Peter Rasmussen, a national advocate for legalizing physician aid in dying, died Tuesday with the help of Oregon’s Death with Dignity law, his family said. Rasmussen, 70, was an oncologist who was passionate about caring for terminal patients and ensuring that they could make own their medical choices in the face of death. He was diagnosed with grade 4 glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor, in spring 2014.