On January 17, 2023, bill S.1331/H.2246, which would authorize medical aid for dying in Massachusetts, was introduced by Sen. Jo Comerford, Rep. Jim O’Day, and Rep. Ted Philips and was assigned to the Joint Committee on Public Health. February 7, 2024, the End of Life Options Act was moved favorably out of the Joint Committee on Public Health as a Senate bill, carrying the House bill. On April 25, 2024, the bill moved favorably out of the Joint Committee on Healthcare Financing to the Senate Ways and Means Committee, where it is now awaiting action.
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.
Compassion & Choices Action Network today praised Massachusetts lawmakers for reintroducing the End of Life Options Act (SD 801/HD 1456) and urged the Legislature to pass the popular bill to prevent any more terminally ill residents from needlessly suffering or not having full autonomy over their death. “There is no miracle that will rid me…
Citando un nuevo editorial del Boston Globe y una encuesta reciente de Massachusetts, tres grupos de defensa de cuidados de salud para el fin de vida, están haciendo un llamado a los legisladores estatales para que utilicen la sesión postelectoral y conviertan en ley, una medida de ayuda médica para morir, antes de finalizar este…
Citing a new Boston Globe editorial and recent Massachusetts poll, three end-of-life care advocacy groups jointly running the grassroots campaign to pass a medical aid-in-dying bill are urging state lawmakers to utilize the post-election session to enact the legislation into law this year. According to a Boston Globe-Suffolk University poll published in September, seven out of 10 Massachusetts residents…
The Boston Globe published a timely editorial on Sunday endorsing the Massachusetts End of Life Option Act that would give mentally capable, terminally ill state residents the option of medical aid in dying to peacefully end their suffering if it becomes unbearable. The editorial is opportune because lawmakers must pass this compassionate legislation before the…
As Compassion & Choices volunteers in Massachusetts urge their lawmakers to pass the End of Life Options Act in 2020 (watch video highlights of Nov. 9 Zoom rally), on Sunday the Boston Globe published a nearly 3,000-word story profiling terminally ill people in Oregon and Washington who received prescriptions for medical aid in dying. The…
Citando una encuesta de Massachusetts publicada recientemente, los patrocinadores y partidarios de la medida End of Life Options Act, u Opciones para el Fin de Vida, realizaron hoy un rally por Zoom, para hacer un llamado a la legislatura estatal, a fin de que se utilice la sesión post electoral y se autorice la propuesta…
Citing a recently released Massachusetts poll, sponsors and supporters of the End of Life Options Act held a Zoom rally today at 4 p.m. to urge state lawmakers to utilize the post-election session to enact the legislation into law this year. According to a Boston Globe-Suffolk University poll published in September, seven out of 10…
An excerpt from the KevinMD.com blog post, “Medical aid in dying is not assisted suicide,” by Roger Kligler, MD, published October 18, 2020: “In the KevinMD article, ‘Assisted suicide: a change of heart,’ the author contends that there is salvation in suffering, but not everyone believes that is true. While I support the author’s ability…
An excerpt from the Boston Globe letter, “Everyone should have power to make end-of-life decisions,” by Compassion & Choices Massachusetts Campaign Manager Brian Monteiro, published October 15, 2020: Re: “Is death the great equalizer?”: Bravo to the Globe journalists who researched and wrote this three-part series vividly exposing the economic and ethnic disparities in our…
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