In the two weeks from March 21 to April 3, 2016:
- California Senate Committee on Health passed SB 1002, End of Life Option Telephone Number Act, which our organization proposed and helped to craft. Learn more →
- News emerged that drugmaker Valeant hiked the price of Seconal, a secobarbital prescribed under Death with Dignity laws, after California’s End of Life Option Act was passed last year.
- A bill in Rhode Island was heard in Committee and held for further study.
Arizona
- “‘Right to die’ bill stalls in Arizona Legislature,” AZ Central, 3/24/2016
- “Senator promises public town halls on physician-assisted suicide until legalized,” Cronkite News, 3/29/2016
- “Arizona’s version of ‘Death with Dignity’ bill dead on arrival,” ABC15, 3/31/2016
California
- “Californians Can Choose to Die – With the Help of Taxpayers,” US News & World Report, 3/21/2016
- “Op-Ed: Who will exercise the right to die?” Los Angeles Times, 3/27/2016
- “Waiting for California’s aid in dying law in order to have a peaceful death,” KCRW, 3/28/2016
- “Preparing for California’s end of life law,” KCRW, 3/29/2016
- “CA lawmakers consider bill to create toll-free hotline about assisted suicide law,” KPCC/SCPR, 3/30/2016
- “California Senate Committee Approves End-of-Life Help Line,” California Healthline, 3/31/2016
- “Patient sees an option in California’s right-to-die law,” Los Angeles Times, 4/1/2016
Minnesota
- “Death and the state,” Austin Daily Herald, 3/24/2016
- “State should pass right to die laws,” Minnesota Daily, 3/21/2016
Washington
- “Death with Dignity doctors thwart drugmaker’s price hike with new medication,” Seattle Times, 4/2/2016
- “Right-to-die group comes up with new medication,” KVUE via Associated Press, 4/3/2016
Elsewhere
- Delaware: “Death and dying in Delaware,” Delaware Online, 3/22/2016
- Iowa: “Editorial: Iowa lawmakers should finally face realities of dying,” Des Moines Register, 3/20/2016
- New Hampshire: “Bill that would create commission to study end-of-life choices faces criticism,” Concord Monitor, 3/29/2016
- New York: “View: ‘Aid in dying’ law won’t threaten anyone,” LOHUD, 3/31/2016
- Rhode Island: “R.I. hearing on bill to let terminally ill end own lives,” Providence Journal, 3/22/2016
Valeant and Other Stories
- “Pharmaceutical Companies Hiked Price on Aid in Dying Drug,” KQED, 3/22/2016 (reprinted in Medscape, Kaiser Health News, and NPR)
- “The price of dying is going up,” Sacramento Bee, 3/23/2016
- “Dying has become more expensive for some thanks to a Valeant price hike,” STAT, 3/24/2016
- “Doubling the Price of a Suicide Drug Has Put Valeant on Life Support,” Yahoo News, 3/29/2016
- “Why I Decided to Make Friends With Death,” Next Avenue, 4/1/2016
Featured image by Jon S.
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