A new poll of Arizonans finds there is close to two-to-one support in the state for an Oregon-style right to die law.

The Behavior Research Center study asked if people would support such a policy, if two doctors conclude the person is terminally ill but mentally sound. 

Ron Johnson, who lobbies on behalf of the state’s three Catholic bishops, said the proposal is for cases where presumably death is inevitable.

"But even in those stages there's much that can be done in modern medicine in terms of palliative care and making someone comfortable presumably, hopefully, in their last days,” Johnson  said.

Pollster Earl de Berge said the measure could be seen as making legal what some terminally ill patients are already doing, stashing medications for the time when they intend to take their own lives.  He said the change in the law would allow the patient to contact a physician.  Five states already have such laws.