Thanks to the persistence of thousands of advocates, the Minnesota End-of-Life Option Act (SF1813/HF1930) moved farther this year than ever before, passing successfully through four House committees and was poised for passage on the House floor. Unfortunately, the Minnesota Senate did not advance the bill due to opposition from two DFL Senators, putting a majority vote out of reach. Although we did not prevail this year, awareness and support are higher than ever. We appreciate and commend Rep. Freiberg and the lawmakers who advanced HF 1930. We plan to build on this momentum in the future. On behalf of terminally ill Minnesotans, we’ll be back in 2025.
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By a three-to-one margin, Minnesotans feel that allowing doctors to legally prescribe lethal drugs to help terminally ill patients end their own lives should be an end-of-life option in the state. See more polling data.
“Of course, people do unexpectedly die, without loved ones around them, all the time. Many times we do not have time to prepare for sudden loss. Sometimes — and I am sure my dad was one of them — we do not want to be encircled by ritual in the deeply intimate moment of dying….
“The fact that Jesus died in only six hours tells me he was not forsaken in the end. Likewise, I don’t believe God would forsake me if I were suffering from a terminal illness, and I don’t believe God would want me to forsake others. During this Lenten season, I invite all Minnesotans to reflect…
Grand Marais, Minnesota resident Carrie Framsted lost her wife, Monica Schliep, to pancreatic cancer in February 2020. Watching Monica suffer in her final days, they regretted that they did not live in a state that authorized medical aid in dying. Since Carrie’s death, Monica has been advocating to help advance a bill in the Minnesota…
As Minnesota’s legislature prepares to consider a bill authorizing the safe, compassionate practice of medical aid in dying, Apple Valley resident Earl Bower penned a letter to the Sun This Week newspaper. It reads, in part: “Most Minnesotans agree that medical aid in dying should be an option and would provide comfort to those at…
In her role as the chair of the Minnesota House Ways and Means Committee, Representative Rena Moran works to expand healthcare coverage, address health disparities and remove barriers to care. She is also a founding member and chair of the People of Color and Indigenous Caucus and United Black Legislative Caucus. During the 2020 legislative…
An excerpt from a Rochester Post-Bulletin column by St. Louis Park, MN resident Rebecca Hopper, “ADA protects me in life, but what about death?” published July 27, 2020: “Advanced care planning is especially important for those of us living with disabilities because we live in a culture that still regards us as dependent, even helpless….
Compassion & Choices and its Minnesota supporters testified before the House Health and Human Services Policy Committee in a public hearing in support of the End-of-Life Option Act (HF 2152), legislation that would authorize medical aid in dying in the state. Medical aid in dying gives mentally capable, terminally ill individuals with a prognosis of…
Kim Callinan urges legislators to pass a medical aid-in-dying law in Minnesota in a recent op-ed for the Minnesota Post. She says “Minnesota can continue its legacy of leadership by becoming the first state in the Midwest to authorize medical aid in dying, because everyone should have the autonomy to make end-of-life decisions that are…
Compassion & Choices welcomed the introduction of the End-of-Life Option Act for 2017 (SF 1572), a bill to give Minnesotans the option to make end-of-life healthcare decisions that are right for them in the final stages of a terminal illness. Joining bill sponsors Sen. Chris Eaton (DFL – Brooklyn Center) and Rep. Mike Freiberg (DFL…
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