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.
An improvement bill, SB 380, took effect in 2022. The Department of Public Health’s annual data report showed there was a 47% increase in Californians who used the law in 2022, increasing access to the law exactly as intended.
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.
Advierten que Cientos de Californianos con Enfermedades Terminales Pueden Sufrir Innecesariamente Si la Corte Anula la Ley Un hombre con una enfermedad terminal, dos médicos y Compassion & Choices Action Network, el grupo de defensa que patrocinó la ley de ayuda médica para morir de California que fue recientemente modificada, presentaron el miércoles una moción para…
Compassion & Choices lanzó hoy videos bilingües con el actor mexicano Mauricio Ochmann y la activista de derechos civiles Dolores Huerta instando a los latinos en California a unirse para defender la ley recién suspendida, End of Life Option Act o Ley de Opción de Fin de Vida por la cual lucharon tanto. Hace 10 días, el 24…
Warns Hundreds of Terminally Ill Californians May Suffer Needlessly if Court Voids Law A terminally ill man, two physicians, and the advocacy group that sponsored California’s recently amended medical aid-in-dying law, Compassion & Choices Action Network, Wednesday, filed a motion to intervene and oppose a federal lawsuit seeking to invalidate the law. The intervenors are represented…
This opinion was published in the Los Angeles Times en Español on Tuesday, May 17, 2022: “..El apoyo de Dolores Huerta fue fundamental para que se aprobara el End of Life Option Act de California en el 2015, y el Elizabeth Whitefield End of Life Options Act en el estado de Nuevo México. Estas leyes…
(Sacramento, CA – 22 de noviembre del 2021) Compassion & Choices presentó hoy un escrito de amicus ante un tribunal federal, en apoyo de una demanda para proteger los derechos de libertad de expresión de la Primera Enmienda, de las doulas (o) para la muerte en California. Las doulas para la muerte (también conocidas como…
(Sacramento) Compassion & Choices filed an amicus brief in federal court late Friday in support of a lawsuit to protect the First Amendment free speech rights of death doulas in California. Death doulas (aka “end-of-life doulas”) provide important information to dying individuals and their loved ones and ensure dying individuals receive patient-directed care at the…
(Riverside, CA – 4 de noviembre del 2021) Compassion & Choices elogió hoy a un tribunal de apelaciones de California por desestimar una demanda de cinco años, resultando que un tribunal inferior suspendiera temporalmente el End of Life Option Act o Ley de Opción de Fin de Vida de California, en mayo del 2018. La suspensión resultó…
(Riverside, Calif. ) Compassion & Choices praised a California appeals court for dismissing a five-year-old lawsuit that resulted in a lower court temporarily suspending California’s End of Life Option Act in May 2018. The suspension resulted in a significant number of terminally ill Californians dying with needless suffering because they were unable to access the…
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