Week 5/2018 in the Death with Dignity Movement

In the week from January 29 to February 4, 2018:

• The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released the first report on the use of the Colorado End of Life Options Act.

California

• “California’s Right-To-Die Law Still Has Some Kinks, Hearing Finds,” Capitol Public Radio, 1/29/2018
• “A day on the death panel: A writer accepts the California Legislature’s invitation to share his mom’s undying wish,” News Review, 2/1/2018

Colorado

• “69 Coloradans got aid-in-dying prescriptions during law’s first year, report says,” Denver Post, 2/1/2018
• “56 Death Certificates Received Since Colorado ‘Aid-In-Dying’ Law’s Passage,” CBS News, 2/1/2018
• “Colorado’s ‘aid-in-dying’ law: 69 prescriptions written in first year,” 9News, 2/1/2018
• “Boulder Neighborhood Well being units insurance policies on aid-in-dying regulation,” Lockport Press, 2/4/2018
• “Boulder Community Health sets policies on aid-in-dying law,” Denver Post, 2/4/2018

Hawaii

• “Medical Aid In Dying: ‘The Political Risk Is Not Passing It’,” Honolulu Civil Beat, 1/31/2018
• “Denying ‘death with dignity’ adds to patients’ suffering,” Honolulu Star Advertiser, 2/4/2018

Massachusetts

• “Physician-assisted suicide bill faces opposition,” Sentinel & Enterprise, 2/4/2018
• “I’m a doctor with end-stage cancer. I support medical aid in dying,” STAT, 1/31/2018

Elsewhere

• Georgia: “Information about the Death with Dignity Act,” Rome News Tribune, 1/31/2018
• Indiana: “Your Opinion: Human dignity’s infinite value,” South Bend Tribune, 2/2/2018
• New York: “The Clinical, Ethical and Legislative Case for Medical Aid in Dying in New York,” NYSBA Health Law Journal, January 2018
• Ohio: “Physician Assisted Suicide in Ohio,” WOSU, 1/30/2018
• Washington: “Death With Dignity Act reviewed,” Goldendale Sentinel, 1/31/2018
• “Death with Dignity: Lack of Access Biggest Issue,” Seven Ponds, 2/2/2018

Image by Thomas Hawk.