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.
(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…
Compassion & Choices dice que un nuevo informe sobre la ley de ayuda médica para morir de California, muestra que más personas están utilizando la medida que permite a los adultos con enfermedades terminales en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales, utilizarla para terminar pacíficamente con su sufrimiento. Sin embargo, dicha ley debe ser más…
This article was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on June 15, 2018 A California appeals court on Friday reinstated a law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives. The ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeal allows the controversial law known as the End of Life Option Act to remain in effect, giving…
Compassion & Choices Action Network aplaudió hoy a la Asamblea de California por aprobar el Senate Bill 380 o Medida SB 380, con una votación del Pleno de la Asamblea de 47-14. La medida bipartidista SB 380 presentada por la Senadora Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) y el Asambleísta Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), mejoraría el acceso al End of Life Option Act o Ley de…
Compassion & Choices Action Network today applauded the California State Assembly Appropriations Committee for passing Senate Bill 380, with amendments, by a vote of 12-4. SB 380, co-authored by Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) and Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), would improve access to the End of Life Option Act. The bill, which the Senate passed by a 26-8…
El martes a última hora, un tribunal de apelaciones de California ordenó a un tribunal superior anular su sentencia presentada en mayo, la cual suspendió la ley estatal de ayuda médica para morir antes que el tribunal de apelaciones revocó en Junio, restableciendo la ley. El Circuito de Apelaciones del 4to Distrito, dictaminó que los demandantes…
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