FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2015 file photo, Debbie Ziegler, mother of Brittany Maynard, speaks to the media after the passage of legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives, at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The measure to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication succeeded on its second attempt after the heavily publicized case of Maynard, the woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to legally take her life. California will become the fifth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs. (AP Photo/Carl Costas, File)
Dr. Lonny Shavelson, head of Bay Area End of Life Options, discusses the stay on the End of Life Option Act, the uncertain future of the act within the court system, the timeline for the final decision, and the doctor takes a few moments to specifically detail what the life of act would do for patients who are terminally and no longer wish to suffer: