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"I believe there's freedom of choice however for me, I choose palliative care… I have God and I have good medicine."

Michelle's physician, palliative care specialist Dr Vincent Nguyen, argued that assisted dying laws in the US state lead to "silent coercion" whereby vulnerable people think their only option is to die.

They want improvements to palliative care instead.

But supporters argues the law needs changing because some people have horrible deaths, however good their end-of-life or palliative care is.

After she was banned by the Department of Social Services, Public Health records listed Barrientos as the administrator for Accord Hospice and Palliative Care in West Covina.