The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass End-of-Life Option Act (SB0926/HB1328), that would authorize medical aid in dying in Maryland, was introduced in the Senate on February 4, 2025, by Senator William C. Smith. On Feb. 7 the bill was co-filed in the House with 49 sponsors. On March 3, HB1328 is scheduled to be heard by the Health and Government Operations Committee, and on March 5, SB0926 is scheduled to be heard by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.
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Compassion & Choices today brought 165 of its Maryland supporters to meet with their state legislators in Annapolis to urge them to pass the “Richard E. Israel and Roger ‘Pip’ Moyer End of Life Options Act.” The legislation would give mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or fewer to live the option to…
The following article appeared in the Washington Times on February 21, 2016: Kelly Lange suffers from stage 4 breast cancer and says she doesn’t want to die. But when the time comes, she wants it to be on her own terms. She was one of 76 witnesses who came to Annapolis to plead with lawmakers…
Former mental health counselor and longtime believer in end-of-life autonomy Ellen Dinerman first heard about Compassion & Choices through a woman in her book group three years ago. “She was a widow, social worker who had done the same kind of work I had done and a metastatic breast cancer survivor,” explains Ellen. “She decided…
“I never had much of an occasion to think about end-of-life issues or even healthcare issues,” says Maryland volunteer Alan Eason, of his 30-year tenure with the Maryland Attorney General’s office. That changed after retirement, however, when he started auditing healthcare law courses at his alma mater, the University of Maryland School of Law. “One…
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