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.
While we wait for the bill to be assigned to a committee, 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.
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…
An excerpt from the Telegram & Gazette opinion column, “Massachusetts must provide end-of-life care options,” by Compassion & Choices Massachusetts Campaign Manager Brian Monteiro, published October 7, 2020: “Contrary to Dr. Rhee’s claims, a Journal of Medical ethics report about Oregon’s medical aid-in-dying law (the model for Massachusetts End of Life Options Act) concluded:…
Seven out of 10 Massachusetts residents (70%) support medical aid in dying, according to a poll published by The Boston Globe Monday that the paper conducted jointly with Suffolk University last November. The poll’s release is timely because Massachusetts lawmakers still have time before the end of the legislative session to pass the End of…
An excerpt from The Daily News of Newburyport letter to the editor, “Supports the End of Life Options Act,” by West Newbury resident Paula Breger, published September 9, 2020: I’m writing to express my support for the End of Life Options Act (H.4782/S.2745), and I urge its passage by the Massachusetts Legislature when it reconvenes…
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