A bill allowing patients with terminal illness to obtain medication to end their lives appears dead for this legislative session, after Brooklyn Center Senator Chris Eaton withdrew her bill Wednesday night following hours of emotional testimony. Sally Settle supports the bill and told lawmakers her mother, who had leukemia, “died of a very painful complication, and after three days of suffering in the hospital where it was the last place she wanted to die, after the doctors could not keep her comfortable, she finally passed with me at her side.” But 35-year-old Elizabeth Bakewicz, who has terminal brain cancer and epilepsy, opposes the bill. She told lawmakers, “My prognosis in 2009 gave me three to five years to live. I am in year seven. However under this bill, I am nothing more than a list of burdens… and this bill just gives me the opportunity to end my life.” With the bill withdrawn, Committee Chair Kathy Sheran from Mankato said there won’t be time to reconsider it during this legislative session.