D.C. Council to Vote on Death with Dignity
October 13, 2016
We are less than a week away from the Council of the District of Columbia’s most important vote of the year. After the Committee on Health and Human Services last week approved Councilmember Mary Cheh’s Death with Dignity bill, the…
Week 40/2016 in the Death with Dignity Movement
October 10, 2016
Highlights from media coverage of Death with Dignity and related issues in the past week. Articles, essays, op-eds, editorials, and more.
D.C. Council Committee Approves Death with Dignity Bill
October 5, 2016
Earlier today, the Committee on Health and Human Services of the Council of the District of Columbia approved an important assisted dying bill. With their 3-2 markup vote, Councilmembers took a crucial step to providing District residents with more autonomy…
State by State Progress: A March Report
March 17, 2016
The year of successes continues. California Last week an extraordinary legislative session concluded in California. The event launched a 91-day countdown to when the End of Life Option Act, a Death with Dignity law we helped craft and pass, goes…
New Stories This Week: Melissa Wood, Christina Derwey, Holly Berg, Amy Neese, and Mary Klein
December 13, 2015
This week, we published five new stories, from California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and two from Texas. Christina Derwey: I Want to Have the Choice Christina Derwey is a retired postal worker in Crescent City,…
Week 30/2015 in the Death with Dignity Movement
July 27, 2015
In the week from July 20 to July 26, 2015: As legislatures went into summer recesses the Death with Dignity movement entered a “slow news day” period. A California judge dismissed one of the two lawsuits challenging the state’s assisted…
Week 29/2015 in the Death with Dignity Movement
July 20, 2015
In the week from July 13 to July 19, 2015, legislatures went into summer recesses and the Death with Dignity movement entered a “slow news day” period. California: “After a Blow in California, Death with Dignity…
Why Religiously Unaffiliated Americans Support Death with Dignity
July 15, 2015
By Sarah Levin When Tom Manger stood up to testify in support of the End of Life Options Act in Sacramento, he spoke on behalf of all religiously unaffiliated Californians who share his belief in the right of “each…
Week 28/2015 in the Death with Dignity Movement
July 13, 2015
Last week, from July 6 to July 12, 2015: The hearing in the California State Assembly Committee on Health was postponed for a second time as the sponsors of SB 128, End of Life Option Act, determined the bill had…
D.C. Council Holds First Hearing on Death with Dignity as New Poll Shows 67% Support in District
July 10, 2015
A poll released by Lake Research today shows 67 percent of District of Columbia residents (51 percent strongly) support the right of terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to legally obtain medication to end their lives.