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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the nation's first law requiring doctors to let terminally ill patients get full disclosure and counseling about all their legal end-of-life care options, supporters of the law told KPBS. (LISTEN)

Under the Terminal Patients? Right to Know End- of-Life Options Act, terminally ill patients will get "information about hospice care, refusal or withdrawing of life-prolonging treatments, voluntary stopping eating and drinking, palliative care and palliative sedation will be discussed with the patient," when the patient requests it, according a press release by Compassion & Choices, a sponsor of the measure.

If doctors don't want to comply with the patient's choice, they have to refer the patient to another provider, according to the release.

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