"The opposition likes to swirl a lot of things into this to muddy the waters. Their campaign is based on fear," says Dan Diaz.

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Dying is never pretty. For some people, it’s downright horrifying.Sally Settle of Apple Valley was sitting beside her 75-year-old mother when she was diagnosed with leukemia and told she would have just six months to live. She wanted to know what death with leukemia would be like.A doctor told her that eventually, her blood transfusions would stop working and she would bleed to death over several days out of every orifice in her body.The family was supposed to stock up on dark-colored towels to make it less traumatic.Settle’s mother was terrified of dying this way. She wanted to move to Oregon, where it’s legal for terminally ill people to end their own lives at home, using pills, with the help of a doctor.In the end, she decided she wanted to spend the final six months of her life with her 14 grandchildren in Minnesota. The cost: three torturous days of dying in the hospital.State Sen. Chris Eaton (DFL-Brooklyn Center) had a bill that would have given Minnesotans the right to die peacefully at home if they’re certain to die in a hospital anyway.Speaking for the bill on Wednesday were people like Settle, whose mother begged her to get involved in the right to die movement so other people wouldn’t have to suffer the way she did.