The California End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016. This compassionate option allows for an eligible terminally ill adult, with a prognosis of six months or less to live, to request and receive a prescription form their doctor that they can self-ingest to peacefully end their suffering.
SB 403, introduced by Senator Catherine Blakespear, seeks to make the End of Life Options Act a permanent law by removing the sunset provision that would expire the law on January 1, 2031. On April 29, SB 403 was heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee and passed by a vote of 10-1 with 2 abstentions.
We will continue to work on reauthorizing this law, removing the sunset provision, and reducing barriers to access while ensuring safeguards remain intact.
The CDSS issued a notice to adult and senior care facilities about the End of Life Option Act. Residents who qualify for medical aid in dying living in assisted facilities and other adult or senior care facilities are able to take their medication in their home and can’t be evicted for choosing this option.
Tres pacientes con discapacidades de California y dos médicos de California presentaron el jueves una moción solicitando intervenir en una demanda federal, alegando que el End of Life Option Act o la actualizada Ley de Opción para el Fin de Vida del estado, discrimina a las personas con discapacidades. También presentaron una moción para desestimar…
Three California patients with disabilities and two California doctors filed a motion Thursday requesting to intervene in a federal lawsuit claiming the state’s revised End of Life Option Act discriminates against people with disabilities. They also filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Their motions are posted at: bit.ly/CAFedDisabilityLawsuitOpposingMotions The state official defendants filed two separate motions in…
Ley Mejorada Funciona Como Esperaban Legisladores: Incrementar el Acceso Para los Californianos Que están Muriendo Un nuevo informe sobre el California End of Life Option Act o Ley de Opción de Fin de Vida de California que permite a los adultos con enfermedades terminales que se encuentran en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales, utilizar…
Enhanced Law Working as Lawmakers Intended: to Increase Access for Dying Californians A new report on California’s End of Life Option Act that allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults to use medical aid in dying to gently end their suffering shows 47% more Californians used the law in 2022, increasing access to the law exactly as intended….
Compassion & Choices is disappointed about the terms of the settlement of a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California’s revised medical-aid-in-dying law and the resulting permanent injunction issued by the court. The plaintiffs in this case, Christian Medical & Dental Associations v. Bonta, claim that the amended California End of Life Option Act, Senate Bill 380, forces them to…
Compassion & & Choices Action Network rechaza enérgicamente los argumentos de varios grupos de defensa para personas con discapacidades y dos personas con discapacidades que el miércoles presentaron una demanda federal en el Distrito Central de California contra funcionarios de California, para impugnar el End of Life Option Act o Ley de Opción de Fin…
Veteran Had to Borrow $2,100 to Pay for Medical Aid in Dying Because Federal Law Prohibits VA Insurance from Covering It (Los Angeles) To honor her first Veterans Day without her late husband, Sgt. Matt Fairchild, Ginger Fairchild has recorded a video urging Congress to repeal an antiquated federal law prohibiting VA insurance from paying for medical aid…
Four advocacy groups filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the California Supreme Court Monday, asserting that a patient’s advance directive appointing a healthcare agent to make their medical decisions does not authorize them to sign arbitration agreements on the patient’s behalf. The brief by Compassion & Choices, Consumer Attorneys of California, American Association for Justice, and Public Justice…
Married almost 49 years, Wendy Soderlund and Edward Pultz sensed signs of Wendy’s dementia long before seeking an official diagnosis in 2021. “It feels like something I’ve just known for a long time,” says Wendy. My mother had dementia, as did her father, and his mother, my great-grandmother. According to family history, she became a…
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