Delaware

Status of Medical Aid in Dying

HB140, the Ron Silverio/Heather Block End-of-Life Options Act, was introduced in May 2023. After passing the General Assembly, outgoing Gov. John Carney vetoed the bill on Sept. 20, 2024, despite the majority of Delaware residents supporting the compassionate end-of-life option.

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Polling Data

By a two-to-one margin, Delaware residents feel that allowing doctors to legally prescribe lethal drugs to help terminally ill patients end their own lives should be an end-of-life option in the state. Read the Delaware polling memo.

Graphic showing that more than a 3 to 1 margin Delaware voters supporter medical aid-in-dying legislation (72%)

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End-of-Life Options Bills Moving Forward Nationwide
March 22, 2022

This legislative session is showing great promise, with encouraging progress in several states. Connecticut The Connecticut General Assembly’s Public Health Committee gave a bipartisan vote of 22-9 on March 4 in support of a medical aid-in-dying-bill. Advocates urged lawmakers to approve the bill, which has been referred to the Senate for action. “We hope the…

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Delaware Online/The News Journal: Opinion: Passing end of life legislation in 2022 would honor deceased advocates
July 9, 2021

An excerpt from the Delaware Online/The News Journal op-ed, “Passing end of life legislation in 2022 would honor deceased advocates,” by Mark Hayden—whose husband was Compassion & Choices Volunteer Storyteller Tom La Follette—published July 8, 2021: “Despite suffering from painful lesions throughout his body caused by a terminal cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma, my late husband,…

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Delaware State News Commentary: End-of-life planning moves to the forefront
April 15, 2020

An excerpt from the Delaware State News commentary, “End-of-life planning moves to the forefront,” by Compassion & Choices President and CEO Kim Callinan, published April 15, 2020:   Thousands of Americans have died from coronavirus, with countless heartbreaking stories. Many families have been separated from a loved one who dies alone in a hospital bed….

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Delaware Public Media: Physican-assisted suicide bill finds support in a new poll
March 11, 2020

An excerpt from Delaware Public Media article, “Physican-assisted suicide bill finds support in a new poll,” published March 11, 2020:   …House Bill 140 would give terminally ill adults with under six months to live and unbearable suffering the option to request prescription medication they can use to die peacefully. A survey conducted between January…

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