New York has become the 13th state along with Washington, D.C., to legalize medically assisted suicide.

More than a dozen other states are also considering legalizing the practice, which supporters call medical aid in dying.

Stephanie Syr traveled to both coasts to re-examine an issue that for decades has divided Americans along moral and political lines.

I have a brain tumor in my right front of the lobe.

Delashman envisions a celebration for the day he dies.

We're going to have a fire going that day, I'll have my little guitar over there,

and pick it up and strumble a little bit.

And my sister's going to be here. My son's going to be here. There'll be people here. And I don't want it to be a sad day.

I just, I just want it to be a day, you know. The Portland, Oregon resident says he's planning to take a lethal dose of medication on April 1st.

Why did you choose April 1st?

April 1st.

No greater fool am I, says I.

So I thought that would be perfect.

He was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in 2017.

Now 67 years old, he's undergone near constant chemotherapy and more than 50 radiation treatments.

He had a compelling reason to fight.

I have a granddaughter, and she was three at the time.

And you've had almost a decade with her.

Yeah, and I see her every Wednesday, so, and I have since she was three months old.

But tumors have now spread to his brain and spine, and he's worried they'll lead to a grueling

death. It's funny, everybody says, you know,

you're so brave. And it's like, no, I'm being, I'm not brave. Because if I was brave,

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