 In June 2019, the Maine Legislature by a very close vote passed a bill to legalize assisted dying.The Governor of Maine signed the bill into law within the same month.In the United States legal and ethical debates about euthanasia became more prominent in the Karen Ann Quinlan case who went into a coma after allegedly mixing tranquilizers with alcohol, surviving biologically for 9 years in a "persistent vegetative state" even after the New Jersey Supreme Court approval to remove her from a respirator.