Medical aid in dying legislation was signed into law on May 20th, 2025 by Governor Matt Meyer. As of January 1st, 2026, medical aid in dying is an accessible end-of-life care option for qualifying patients in Delaware.
On 4/9/2026, SB274 was introduced. The bill aims to modernize the DMOST (Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment) form and align it more closely with national standards.
Victory in Delaware! Delaware is now the 12th jurisdiction to authorize medical aid in dying.
An excerpt from a Delaware Online letter to the editor by Milton resident Lorraine Anderson, “Don’t be afraid of HB 140,” published Jan. 31, 2020: As a nurse, I must disagree with a letter written by Bess McAneny that said “HB 140 is dangerous…” This compassionate legislation includes safeguards designed to protect terminally ill people,…
Delaware State Representative Paul Baumbach wrote an op-ed for Delaware Online about his support for medical aid-in-dying legislation. He said, “We named our bill HB 140, to honor the memory of Delawareans Ron Silverio and Heather Block. Both recently deceased, they were passionate advocates of medical aid in dying. They died without access to this…
Compassion & Choices is urging Delaware lawmakers to move the Ron Silverio/Heather Block Delaware End of Life Options Act (HB 140), the state’s medical aid-in-dying legislation, out of committee so that the entire House of Representatives can consider this important bill. Compassion and Choices’ call to the Delaware legislature comes after similar bills were…
Compassion & Choices today released a video featuring Tom La Follette, a New Castle County resident who is battling Kaposi’s sarcoma, a terminal, opportunistic infection from HIV/AIDS. This past year, Tom joined thousands of his fellow Delawareans in advocating for the state’s legislature to pass the End of Life Options Act, HB 160, Delaware’s proposed…
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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