Week 10/2016 in the Death with Dignity Movement

In the week from March 7 to March 13, 2016:

• The special legislative session in which the California End of Life Option Act was passed last year concluded, triggering a 91-day period to June 9 when the law will go into effect.

California

• “End of Life Option Act to Become Effective on June 9,” Press release of California Senator Bill Monning, 3/10/2016
• “State aid-in-dying law to take effect June 9,” Los Angeles Times, 3/10/2016
• “Terminally ill patients in California can seek aid-in-dying beginning June 9,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3/10/2016
• “California’s ‘Physician-Assisted Suicide’ Law To Take Effect in June,” KQED, 3/10/2016
• “Aid-in-dying law to take effect June 9 in California,” Los Angeles Times, 3/10/2016
• “California Right-To-Die Law Will Take Effect In 3 Months,” OPB, 3/10/2016
• “California To Permit Medically Assisted Suicide As Of June 9,” NPR, 3/10/2016
• “Assisted death will become legal in California in June,” Sacramento Bee, 3/10/2016
• “Ill Californians May Take Life-Ending Drugs Starting in June,” New York Times via Associated Press, 3/10/2016
• “With end of lawmaker session, right-to-die law will take effect in 3 months,” Orange County Register, 3/11/2016
• “California Gives Terminally Ill Residents The Right To Die On Their Own Terms,” Huffington Post, 3/11/2016
• “What California providers will do when asked to help patients die,” Modern Healthcare, 3/11/2016

Iowa

• “Iowa Poll: 59% support ‘right to die’ for terminally ill,” Des Moines Register, 3/10/2016
• “Demanding Dignity: Epworth woman lobbies for aid-in-dying law,” THOnline, 3/13/2016

Elsewhere

• Arizona: “Skoblin wants to die with dignity,” Journal AZ, 3/10/2016
• Illinois: “Letter: When death is the kindest choice,” Chicago Tribune, 3/8/2016
• Nebraska: “A husband keeps a promise to his dying wife,” Lincoln Journal Star, 3/9/2016
• New York: “NY Legislature mulling doctor-assisted suicide bills,” Daily Freeman New York, 3/12/2016
• North Carolina: “Death with dignity forum Thursday in Chapel Hill,” The News & Observer, 3/13/2016
• Oregon: “Death with dignity wish not easily granted,” Register Guard, 3/13/2016
• Tennessee: “Whose dignity matters in end-of-life decisions?” Tennesseean, 3/8/2016

Other Stories

• “Why should one church decide for all of us? Death with dignity in Oregon,” Episode 9 of the Better Off Dead Podcast, March 2016
• “Better Off Dead Interview with Peg Sandeen,” Special Feature of Episode 9 of the Better Off Dead Podcast, March 2016
• “Should the terminally ill control how they die?” CBS 60 Minutes, 3/13/2016
• “What ’60 Minutes’ Didn’t Say About Why ‘Death With Dignity’ Is So Hard,” Forbes, 3/13/2016

Featured image by Lori Erickson.