For those individuals, Connecticut should finally enact a medical aid in dying law. Patients who oppose medical aid in dying because of religious, moral, or personal beliefs would never be required to choose it. But in a diverse society, one person’s beliefs should not determine another person’s most intimate medical decisions. Too often, discussions about medical aid in dying become dominated by hypothetical fears rather than the real experiences of terminally ill patients. Medical aid in dying is not about choosing death over life.