Death with Dignity: Two Decades of Progress in the US
December 2, 2015
Our Executive Director Peg Sandeen recently spoke at an event organized by the Glasgow, Scotland-based organization Friends At The End (FATE), which promotes knowledge about end-of-life choices. This is the transcript of her presentation. * Twenty-one years ago…
Week 44/2015 in the Death with Dignity Movement
November 2, 2015
In the week from October 26 to November 1, 2015: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts held a hearing in the Joint Committee for Public Health for the proposed Compassionate Care for the Terminally Ill Act. A California appeals court affirmed a…
Week 42/2015 in the Death with Dignity Movement
October 19, 2015
In the week from October 12 to October 18, 2015: The passage of the California End of Life Option Act reverberated across the country. The Death with Dignity movement suffered a great loss: our dear friend Dick Walters, who led…
Week 41/2015 in the Death with Dignity Movement
October 12, 2015
In the week from October 5 to October 11, 2015: California became the fourth state to enact a Death with Dignity statute and the fifth to legalize physician assisted dying when Governor Brown signed the End of Life Option Act.
California Becomes the Fourth State with a Death with Dignity Statute
October 5, 2015
In a historic decision today, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act into law! With the Governor’s signature, thirty-nine million Californians joined the residents of Oregon, Washington, and Vermont in having the option, should they be…
Weeks 37 thru 39/2015 in the Death with Dignity Movement
September 28, 2015
In the three weeks from September 7 to 27, 2015: The most important event in the history of the Death with Dignity movement since Vermont’s passage of Act 39 took place when both the California Assembly and Senate approved the…
California Assembly and Senate Approve End of Life Option Act
September 11, 2015
Words cannot describe the atmosphere here at Death with Dignity headquarters. Three days after the California Assembly approved the End of Life Option Act 42 to 33, the California Senate approved it on a 23 to 14 vote, bringing the…
Week 35/2015 in the Death with Dignity Movement
August 31, 2015
Last week, from August 24 to August 30, 2015: The California End of Life Option Act, introduced in the state Assembly’s extraordinary legislative session on healthcare, made its way through the legislature; a hearing in the special Health Committee is…
California Legislators Reintroduce End of Life Option Act
August 20, 2015
On Tuesday, California Assembly Members Susan Talamantes Eggman, Mark Stone, and Luis Alejo introduced the California End of Life Option Act in their chamber of the state legislature. The bill is nearly identical to Senate Bill 128, sponsored by Senators…
Dying the Way I Want: Death with Dignity in Maine
August 14, 2015
By Valerie Lovelace Maine Should Have a Death with Dignity Law Maine’s legislature recently failed to pass LD 1270, An Act Regarding Patient-Directed Care at the End-of-Life. The bill would have allowed a qualifying, terminally ill adult to ask…