On April 17, 2025 the Delaware Senate passed the Ron Silverio/Heather Block Delaware End-of-Life Options Act (HB 140) in a vote of 11-8 with two Senators absent. HB 140 now awaits consideration by Governor Matt Meyer, who publicly stated he will sign it into law following its historic first passage by the Delaware General Assembly last June and tragic veto by former Governor Carney in September.
Lawmakers need to hear from you. Urge them to make passage of HB 140 a top priority in the 2025 legislative session.
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.
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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