On June 5, Governor Jared Polis signed the improved End-of-Life Options Act into law. SB 68 goes into effect August 7, 2024.
Key updates to the law:
The mandatory waiting period between oral requests is reduced from 15 to seven days, or waived entirely if the patient is unlikely to survive the wait.
Advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority can now serve as attending and consulting providers.
The Colorado End-of-Life Options Act went into effect on December 16, 2016, authorizing the compassionate option of medical aid in dying for terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their suffering peacefully.
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Advocates praised Senate Health & Human Services Vice Chair Joann Ginal (Larimer County) and Rep. Kyle Brown (Boulder & Broomfield counties) for introducing a new bill Monday to improve dying patients’ access to the state’s 2016 End-of-Life Options Act. The law allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less to live to use medical aid in…
Every year, Compassion & Choices celebrates Pride Month in recognition and celebration of the LGBTQ+ community. The end-of-life options movement was born out of the same principles and values as the LGBTQ+ rights movement, including bodily autonomy and person-directed healthcare. From Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act to allowing same-sex partners to act as healthcare proxies…
Lea el artículo aquí. Las leyes de ayuda médica para morir aplican únicamente a pacientes con enfermedades terminales, en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales, con un pronóstico de vida de seis meses o menos y que puedan auto ingerir el medicamento por sí mismos(a). Cualquier desviación de estos requisitos, viola la ley y coloca…
Read the story here. Medical aid-in-dying laws apply only to mentally capable, terminally ill patients with six months or less to live who are able to self-ingest the medication. Any deviation from these requirements violates the law and places physicians, family members and others in regulatory, civil and criminal jeopardy. This law does not and…
(Denver, CO) A new report from the Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) Vital Statistics Program shows that five years after the implementation of Colorado’s medical aid-in-dying law, this compassionate medical practice continues to offer peace to qualified, terminally ill Coloradans. In 2021, 222 patients received prescriptions for aid-in-dying medications under the provisions of the…
Andrea Ankerholz of Silverthorne, Colorado, had been living cancer free since undergoing a double mastectomy in 2016. She learned in May 2020 that her cancer had returned. Two months later, scans and further testing revealed that it was metastatic cancer — Andrea was dying. Her oncologist gave her six to 12 months to live, possibly…
Today’s report from the Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) Vital Statistics Program shows that four years after the implementation of Colorado’s medical aid in dying law, this compassionate option continues to help qualified terminally ill Coloradans peacefully end their suffering in accordance with their own values. In 2020, 188 patients were prescribed medical…
Three years after the End-of-Life Options Act went into effect, it is clear that the medical aid-in-dying law is helping some terminally ill Coloradans peacefully end their suffering in accordance with their own values, based on a report released today by the Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) Vital Statistics Program. The law, passed…
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