California’s Right-To-Die Law Still Has Some Kinks, Hearing Finds

By Sammy Caiola – capitol pubic radio – January 29, 2018

“Barbara Koenig, head of bioethics at the UC San Francisco, said bureaucracy can sometimes keep patients from exercising choice at life’s end. It’s a timing problem. If their disease progresses before they’re able to use the law, they may become too debilitated to qualify.”