High court wades into life, death arguments

August 31, 2009

Robert Baxter, a 76-year-old former truck driver from Billings, spent his last months fighting for the right to hasten his own death. Baxter was the Montana face and only named terminally ill patient in a legal case that sought to legalize physician-assisted suicide; he wanted doctors to prescribe him medication that would bring about his death and end his struggle with chronic leukemia. (Billings Gazette)