A former Vermont legislator and House majority leader has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives, his wife said. Willem Jewett died Jan.
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- The former Vermont lawmaker and House majority leader died on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022.
- Jewett, who had cancer, helped pass a Vermont’s aid-in-dying law that allows terminally ill patients to ask their doctors for a lethal dose of medication.
- Jewett, who had cancer, helped pass a Vermont’s aid-in-dying law that allows terminally ill patients to ask their doctors for a lethal dose of medication.
- Willem Jewett died Jan. 12 at his home in Ripton at age 58, said his wife, Ellen McKay Jewett.
- The Democrat became assistant majority leader in 2011 and later majority leader.