The Supreme Court in the US state of Montana is due to begin hearing arguments to decide if severely ill people there have the constitutional right to ask their doctor to help them die.
A lower court judgement last December decided that they did, but now the state of Montana is trying to have that ruling overturned.
By and large, the rest of the US does not focus on legal proceedings in the small city of Helena.
It might be a state capital but the "Queen City of the Rockies" has a population of less than 30,000. Yet a hearing at Montana's Supreme Court in Helena may influence how other Americans live and die.
Last December, Montana became the third US state to permit what supporters call "assisted dying" or "death with dignity".
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