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.
Compassion & Choices Action Network is proud to share that, due to our advocacy and the leadership of Senator Catherine Blakespear and other legislative champions, SB 403, the bill to make the End of Life Option Act permanent, has been signed into law on October 3, 2025, by Governor Gavin Newsom. We are so pleased that in times of great uncertainty, we have worked alongside champions and partners to ensure that everyone in the Golden State will continue to have access to the End of Life Option Act in perpetuity.
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.
(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…
Compassion & Choices Action Network agradeció hoy al Comité Judicial de la Asamblea del Estado de California por aprobar la medida Senate Bill 380, por un voto de 6-1. La propuesta presentada por la Senadora Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) y el Asambleísta Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), coautores del Senate Bill 380, mejoraría el acceso al End of Life Option Acto Ley…
(Sacramento, California) Compassion & Choices Action Network elogió hoy al Gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, por firmar la SB 380 o Medida de Ley 380, para convertirse en ley, ya que mejorará drásticamente el acceso al End of Life Option Act o Ley de Opción de Fin de Vida del 2015, para los Californianos con…
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