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Michigan House Democrats have introduced the Death with Dignity Act, which would allow terminally ill adults with fewer than six months to live to request lethal prescriptions under a set of procedural safeguards modeled on Oregon's 27-year-old law. The bill faces near-certain defeat in the Republican-controlled House, but it reopens a charged debate in a state shaped by the legacy of Jack Kevorkian, a large Catholic hospital network covering nearly one in four hospital beds, and persistent questions about whether legalizing assisted death improves or undermines end-of-life care.