Although the issue is new for the Supreme Court, the state courts have been deciding right-to-die cases since the 1970's.

A new study of right-to-die cases has found that the courts treat women very differently from men.

A28 Missouri is back in court in another right-to-die case.

It then announced that it would hear the right-to-die case in its next term along with three new abortion cases.

Using it, a lawyer wanting to review right-to-die cases for all 50 states could pull the information in less than 30 seconds.

Experts in right-to-die cases said yesterday that virtually no states allowed a person to help another commit suicide.

But there is nothing abstract about the right-to-die case now before the Court.

Most "right-to-die" cases have involved comatose patients or those who cannot make their wishes known to the court.

New Jersey has been a bellwether state in right-to-die cases for more than a decade.

They watch all the other right-to-die cases, hear their name recalled, softly sympathize as the next family is thrust on stage.