When you’re headed to death without a miracle, you have every right to try an experimental treatment. We’re glad to see Congress recognize that fact by passing the Right to Try Act.

The bill that President Trump just signed into law (keeping yet another campaign promise) lets terminally ill patients try drugs that have passed the first phase of Food and Drug Administration approval but are still hung up in the cumbersome FDA clinical-trial procedures — provided they’ve exhausted all approved treatment options.

Yes, existing programs opened some experimental options for some patients.

But, really: Why stand in the way of letting someone who’s dying take a risk? As Trump said, it’s a “fundamental freedom.”

That’s why 40 states have already passed Right to Try laws — and why Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W. Va.) and Joe Donnelly (Ind.) co-sponsored it with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.).

If the new law “saves one person, it’s worth it,” said Christina Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute, a prime force in pushing the reform. And it clearly gives thousands more terminally ill people “a last chance — and the right to hope.”

Amen.