Week 1/2018 in the Death with Dignity Movement

In the first week of the year, from January 1 to January 7, 2018:

• State lawmakers in New York and Indiana introduced (or re-introduced) assisted dying bills.

Delaware

• “I’m dying. I hope Delaware approves the End of Life Options Act,” Delaware Online, 1/3/2018
• “The voices of the dying changed my mind: Albright,” DelawareOnline.com, 1/5/2018
  

Indiana

• “Lawmaker wants to legalize assisted suicide in Indiana,” Indy Star, 1/4/2018
• “”Death with Dignity” bill gives terminally ill patients option to end own life,” WTHR, 1/4/2018
• “Proposed death with dignity law would allow assisted suicide in limited cases,” The Statehouse File, 1/4/2018
• “‘Death with dignity’ bill finding early opposition in Indiana,” Post-Tribune, 1/5/2018

Elsewhere

• California: “Report on First Year of California’s Aid-in-Dying Law,” Medscape, 1/2/2018
• Maine: “In a new book for kids, the son of Grim Reaper offers lessons about death and dying,” Press Herald, 1/7/2018

Featured image by Judy van der Velden.