On January 16, 2025, the End of Life Options Act (S.1486/H.2505) was introduced for the 2025-2026 legislative session by Senator Jo Comerford, Representative Jim O’Day and Representative Ted Philips.
On April 2, S.1486/H.2505: An Act Relative to End of Life Options was heard by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Health. The committee has set a deadline of June 1 to move the bill.
While we wait, we ask that advocates in Massachusetts use the link below to email their legislators and ask them to co-sponsor this session’s bills.
The Massachusetts End of Life Options Act would authorize medical aid in dying in Massachusetts, bringing the full range of end-of-life care options to terminally ill Massachusetts residents. Email your lawmakers today and urge them to cosponsor the bill.
Palliative care in emergency departments is bringing a critical shift in the end-of-life experience. Every year there are over 137 million visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs) in the United States. Adults 65 and older use the ED more than any other age group, and half of older adults will visit the ED in the…
Varias decenas de personas con enfermedades terminales y cuidadores de seres queridos que han muerto con un sufrimiento insoportable, brindaron un poderoso testimonio en una audiencia el viernes ante el Joint Committee on Public Health, donde hacen un llamado a la legislatura estatal para que aprueben el End of Life Options Act o Medida Opciones para el…
Dozens of terminally ill patients and caregivers of loved ones who died with unbearable suffering testified at a Friday hearing before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Health to urge the state Legislature to pass the End of Life Options Act (H.2246/S.1331). Sponsored by Senator Jo Comerford and Representatives James O’Day and Ted Philips, and cosponsored by 80 other lawmakers, the bill…
Casi tres de cada cuatro votantes de Massachusetts (73%) apoya una medida que permite a los adultos con una enfermedad terminal tener la opción de la ayuda médica para morir de manera pacífica y poner fin a un sufrimiento insoportable. Casi ocho de cada 10 votantes (79%) apoya la propuesta después de conocer sus salvaguardas,…
First Statewide Poll on Issue Among Key Constituencies Shows Strong Support Among Catholics, Pro-Choice/Anti-Choice Voters, People With Disabilities Nearly three out of four Massachusetts voters (73%) support a bill to allow terminally ill adults the option of medical aid in dying to peacefully end unbearable suffering, and nearly eight out of ten voters (79%) support…
An excerpt from The Lowell Sun letter to the editor, “ Pass medical aid in dying legislation,” by North Chelmsford resident Kathi Geisler, published March 21, 2023: The fight to pass a medical aid in dying bill has been raging in Massachusetts for over a decade. How can this be when 77% of Massachusetts residents report that they…
Vow to Persuade Legislature to Pass Long-Overdue End of Life Options Act (Boston, Mass.) Supporters of medical aid in dying expressed sadness but said they are undeterred by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling today that terminally ill adults have no state constitutional right to medical aid in dying and that state law prohibits this…
Compassion & Choices apelará la desestimación de un tribunal de Massachusetts de todos menos uno de los cargos en la demanda que afirma que la constitución estatal y la ley estatal vigente, permiten la ayuda médica para morir a los adultos con enfermedades terminales que se encuentran en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales. El…
Bill Supporters Say 4-1 Vote Margin to Maintain “Neutral Engagement” Stance May Improve Chances for Advancing Bill by June 1 Committee Deadline Compassion & Choices praised the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) for voting to maintain a neutral position on legislation giving terminally ill patients the option of medical aid in dying to peacefully end unbearable…
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