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Elizabeth Whitefield, a longtime family law judge and attorney, advocated for a law that would allow terminally ill patients to seek help from a doctor to end their life. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One by one, they told stories of the painful ways in which loved ones died, the butchery of it all, the screaming, the indignity, the helplessness of final days, the relief that only came through ugly death.
Saturday, as the chill of a polar vortex descended outside, the state House Judiciary Committee took testimony via Zoom on a bill that if passed could allow terminally ill patients to die in a way less cold, less cruel.