Compassion & Choices Action Network is proud to share that due to our decade of relentless advocacy in Delaware, House Bill 140, authorizing medical aid in dying, has been signed into law May 20, 2025, by Governor Matt Meyer. This makes Delaware the 12th U.S. jurisdiction to affirm the rights of terminally ill adults to die peacefully on their own terms. The law cannot be utilized until the regulations are completed by the State Department of Health and Social Services or January 1, 2026, whichever comes first. Read more about the law here.
Victory in Delaware! Delaware is now the 12th jurisdiction to authorize medical aid in dying.
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.
The Ron Silverio/Heather Block Delaware End of Life Options Act (HB140), permitting medical aid in dying in Delaware was introduced in the Delaware House of Representatives Tuesday by Rep. Paul Baumbach (D-District 23). The bill has support from every member of Democratic caucus leadership. Sponsoring senators and representatives include: Primary Sponsor: Rep. Baumbach (D-District 23) Additional Sponsors: Majority…
Siete de cada 10 médicos Encuestados de Delaware Desean la Opción de Ayuda Médica para Morir en Caso de Padecer una Enfermedad Terminal Casi tres de cada cuatro médicos de Delaware que fueron encuestados (74%), dicen que apoyan la actual medida que permitiría a los adultos con enfermedades terminales, la opción legal de ayuda médica…
Seven in 10 Delaware Physicians Surveyed Want Option of Medical Aid in Dying if They Become Terminally Ill Nearly three out of four Delaware physicians surveyed (74%) say they support current legislation that would allow terminally ill adults the legal option of medical aid in dying to end their suffering. In addition, more than three…
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…
An excerpt from WHYY public radio article, “Should Delaware allow terminally ill patients to be prescribed medication to end their life?,” published January 28, 2022: “Dawn Lentz has seen too many of her friends in Delaware die in agony from cancer and other illnesses without having the option to go out on their own terms……
The Delaware House Health & Human Development Committee released a medical aid-in-dying bill to the House floor at the end of a hearing Wednesday featuring Delawareans with incurable diseases and family members of loved ones who died in agony because they didn’t have the option of medical aid in dying. The committee voted 8 to…
El Comité de Salud y Desarrollo Humano de la Cámara de Representantes de Delaware presentó el miércoles una medida de ley de ayuda médica para morir al pleno de la Cámara al final de una audiencia, en la que se presentaron residentes de Delaware con enfermedades incurables y familiares de seres queridos que murieron en…
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,…
The Ron Silverio/Heather Block Delaware End of Life Options Act (HB 140), which would allow medical aid in dying in Delaware, was reintroduced in the General Assembly earlier today by Rep. Paul Baumbach (D-District 23). The bill has the most cosponsors, nine, since its first introduction in 2017. They include: Senate Majority Leader Bryan Townsend…
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