In the two weeks from May 2 to May 15, 2016:
- A New York state appellate court upheld a lower-court ruling that state residents have a right to refuse medical treatment but physicians do not have the right to help them die.
- The two bills pending in the New York state legislature were combined and introduced as a single bill.
- In California, debate intensified in the run-up to the implementation of the End of Life Option Act on June 9.
California
- “Will hospitals reject California’s assisted suicide law?” Los Angeles Times, 5/6/2016
- “Will it matter if hospitals opt out of California’s assisted suicide law?,” SCPR, 5/9/2016
- “Op-Ed: Why many hospice doctors like me won’t participate in legal physician assisted suicide,” Los Angeles Times, 5/12/2016
- “Q&A: How California’s aid-in-dying law will work,” Los Angeles Times, 5/12/2016
- “Will doctors choose to prescribe lethal drugs under California’s new aid-in-dying law?” San Jose Mercury News, 5/13/2016 (also published as “Doctors grapple with right-to-die law,” Monterey Herald, 5/15/2016)
- “California’s new right-to-die law: Questions and answers,” San Jose Mercury News, 5/13/2016
Maryland
- “Legal Matters: Just the facts on assisted suicide,” Carroll County Times, 5/5/2016
- “Hagerstown-Washington County chamber hears death-with-dignity debate,” Herald Mail Media, 5/4/2016
New York
- “Court ruling doesn’t allow doctor-assisted suicides in New York State,” New York Daily News, 5/3/2016
- “Paulin Defends Aid-in-Dying Bill in Heated Scarsdale Debate,” The Examiner, 5/3/2016
- “Panel Refuses to Legalize ‘Aid in Dying’ Procedures,” New York Law Journal, 5/4/2016
- “Doctors Explain Opposition to Aid in Dying,” Time Warner Cable News Capital Region, 5/6/2016
- “Death With Dignity,” & “Inside New York’s End-of-Life Options Act,” WIVB-ABC, 5/9/2016
- “NY Lawmakers introduce aid-in-dying bill,” News10-ABC, 5/10/2016
- “Aid-In-Dying Legislation Combined,” Time Warner Cable News – State of Politics, 5/10/2016
- “Lawmakers announce omnibus aid-in-dying bill,” Politico New York, 5/10/2016
- “Aid in Dying bill is joined in Assembly and Senate but needs GOP support,” Albany Times Union, 5/10/2016
- “Legislative Support for ‘Aid in Dying'”, Time Warner Cable News Capital Region, 5/10/2016
- “As lawmakers push new legislation, debate over right to die continues,” WHEC-NBC Rochester, 5/11/2016
Elsewhere
- Colorado: “Guest column: Are we talking about death with dignity?,” Aspen Times, 5/10/2016
- Idaho: “The right to end it all,” Idaho State Journal, 5/8/2016
- Illinois: “Cancer Is My Prison, and Intolerable Suffering Is My Sentence,” Huffington Post, 5/10/2016
- Iowa: “‘Aid In Dying’ Bill Did Not Pass, But the Debate is Here to Stay,” Iowa Public Radio, 5/5/2016
- Maine: “Maine Voices: Opting for dignified death with doctor’s help is our final freedom of choice,” Portland Press Herald, 5/5/2016
- New Jersey: “We’re terminally ill. Why won’t N.J. let my sister and me die in peace? | Opinion,” NJ.com, 5/11/2016
- Ohio: “Despite objections, Ohio Senate passes bill allowing more end-of-life care instruction,” Columbus Dispatch, 5/4/2016
- Oregon: “Special Report: A Look at Death With Dignity and How it Affects Families,” KEZI-ABC News, 5/5/2016
Other Stories
- “Physician-assisted suicide up for debate,” Medical Economics, 5/10/2016
- “When a Patient Discusses Assisted Dying: Nursing Practice Implications,” Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, June 2016, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 184–191
- “Right to Die: Expansion of legalized Physician Assisted Suicide in the United States while maintaining a conservative approach,” Legal Solutions Blog, 5/13/2016
Featured image by Judy van der Velden.
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