Health care community should have been ready Seventy-six-year-old Stephen Wallace of Benton City knew the score. And he knew the law. He felt his fate was sealed, and he wanted to be the one who called the final shot in the comfort of his own home. So his family spent many frustrating days trying to fulfill his dying wish. But Wallace didn't have many days left. And despite the fact that the Kadlec Health System and Kennewick Public Hospital District boards had voted to let their physicians participate in the program, no one could help.