“Man of Steel” Brings Muscular Message to Oppose Right-to-Die Legislation: in 2014, J.J. Hanson was diagnosed with a quickly growing brain tumor. He was given four months to live. More than two years later, Hanson is still alive. And he has positioned himself as the new face of a movement fighting against legislation that will give aid in dying to terminally ill patients (opponents call these “assisted suicide” laws).