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. On July 30, 2025, H.2505 was reported favorably out of the Joint Committee on Public Health by a vote of 9-1. H.2505, the House bill, is now in the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing. The Senate bill, S.1486, remains in the Joint Committee on Public Health.
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.
An excerpt from The Salem News letter to the editor by Marblehead resident Diane Bourgeois, “‘Death with dignity’ a humane option,” published March 1, 2020: Thanks for the great letter on Feb. 21 by Chip Ford titled “Death with dignity restores personal liberty.” After watching how much my father suffered before he died last…
An excerpt from The Salem News column, “‘Death with dignity’ restores personal liberty,” by Chip Ford, published Feb. 20, 2020: While reading the Jan. 29 letter, “Pass ‘death with dignity’ bill” by Betty Breuhaus of Marblehead, I was reminded of the end-of-life ordeal of my life partner of 20 years, Barbara Anderson. As a…
An excerpt from a Falmouth Enterprise article, “Falmouth Physicians To Appeal Aid-In-Dying Ruling,” published Feb. 6, 2020: Two Falmouth physicians, Dr. Roger M. Kligler and Dr. Alan Steinbach, are appealing a Massachusetts court ruling on their constitutional challenge to declare physicians who assist terminally ill patients in dying to be immune from prosecution for…
An excerpt from The Salem News letter to the editor by Marblehead resident Betty Breuhaus, “Pass ‘death with dignity’ bill,” published Jan. 29, 2020: I’m writing about the important end-of-life healthcare issue of death with dignity. It’s also known as medical, compassionate aid in dying for people who are terminally ill, mentally capable, and…
“Compassion & Choices is disappointed by a Massachusetts judge’s recent ruling to dismiss a lawsuit, Kligler v. Healey, asserting that both the state constitution and existing state law allow physicians to support a patient’s desire for a peaceful death, also known as medical aid in dying. While we will appeal this ruling, a majority of residents…
Compassion & Choices will appeal a Massachusetts court’s dismissal of all but one count in a lawsuit asserting the state constitution and existing state law allow medical aid in dying for mentally capable, terminally ill adults. The court did rule in the plaintiffs’ favor in one of the six counts in the lawsuit: physicians are…
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…
Compassion & Choices and its Massachusetts supporters testified before the Joint Committee on Public Health today in support of legislation that would authorize medical aid in dying as an end-of-life care option in the state. The bill, the Massachusetts End of Life Options Act (H.1926/S.1208), would give mentally capable, terminally ill individuals with a prognosis…
Compassion & Choices y sus partidarios de Massachusetts testificaron hoy ante el Comité Conjunto de Salud Pública en apoyo a la legislación que autorizaria la ayuda médica para morir como una opción de cuidados de fin de vida en el estado. El proyecto de ley, End of Life Options Act u Opciones de Fin de…
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