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End of Life Option Act added to Division 1 of the California Health and Safety Code. [9] The act includes definitions and procedures which must be fulfilled, a statement of request for aid-in-dying drugs which must be signed and witnessed and a final attestation of intent signed 48 hours before self-administering the drug. [9]
Aylene Wozmak, the Rev. Peter Friedrichs and former state representative Ed Butler support the End of Life Options Act in front of the New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord on Thursday, March 21, 2024.
From 2015 to 2017, an End of Life Option Act was introduced each year, but each year withdrawn without a vote. In 2019, the reintroduced act was brought to a vote. It passed the House 74–66, but failed in the Senate with a tie 23–23. In 2020, the act was once again introduced but subsequently set aside due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The End of Life Options Act would allow terminally ill patients, who have six months or less to live, to request medication to die peacefully.. Medical-aid-in-dying bill clears one legislative ...
The New Hampshire End of Life Options Act is conservative, modeled after time-tested laws since 1997 in numerous other states proven to prevent coercion. It offers terminally ill patients the ...
Since 1994, the following states in the US have passed assisted suicide laws: Oregon (Death with Dignity Act, 1994), Washington (Death with Dignity Act, 2008), Vermont (Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life Act, 2013), California (End of Life Option Act, 2015), Colorado (End of Life Options Act, 2016), District of Columbia (D.C. Death ...
Supporters of the End of Life Options Act, including the Director of NH Alliance for End of Life Options Rebecca Brown (middle), gather outside the Senate Health and Human Services committee on ...
For the first time in this bill’s long history, lawmakers favorably moved the End of Life Options Act out of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing to the Senate Ways and Means Committee ...