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.
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 following op-ed appeared in the Delaware News Journal on March 15, 2018 On Saturday, I got the news that Heather Block, a beautiful 55-year-old woman, died. She was a kind and compassionate person. She cared about others. She was a fighter. Heather had stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, a disease for which there is…
Compassion & Choices and its Delaware supporters met with lawmakers at the state Capitol June 21 to urge them to pass the End of Life Options Act, which would authorize medical aid in dying for terminally ill residents. The bill, authored by Rep. Paul Baumbach, passed out of the House Health and Human Development Committee…
Compassion & Choices and its Delaware supporters today met with Delaware legislators at the state Capitol today to urge them to authorize the end-of-life care option of medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying gives mentally capable, terminally ill individuals with a prognosis of six months or less to live the option to request,…
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