The Maryland End of Life Option Act (HB 0403), The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act, was introduced on January 18, 2024, and referred to the Health and Government Operations and Judiciary committees. If authorized, this bill would allow a terminally ill, mentally capable adult to request a prescription from their physician that they could take to bring about a peaceful death. A summary of the bill can be found here.
The Senate companion bill (SB 0443) was introduced on January 22, 2024. The hearing will take place on February 8, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
We are waiting for a hearing date for the House to be announced.
Marylanders deserve the full range of options for care at the end of life – including medical aid in dying, which allows terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their life peacefully.
Support the movement to bring compassionate end-of-life options to Maryland.
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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