In a recent 2024 poll, 63% Nevadans support that terminally ill patients should be allowed the option to use medical aid in dying.
Faced with a terminal diagnosis, people in your state deserve the full range end-of-life care options, including medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying allows terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their life peacefully.
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Compassion & Choices Action Network elogió hoy al Senador Edgar Flores (D-Las Vegas), por presentar el End of Life Options Act (SB 239) o medida Opciones para el Fin de Vida de Nevada (SB 239). El proyecto de ley permitiría a los adultos con una enfermedad terminal y en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales, la opción de…
Compassion & Choices Action Network today praised Senator Edgar Flores (D-Las Vegas) for introducing the Nevada End of Life Options Act (SB 239). The bill would allow terminally ill, mentally capable adults to have the legal option to request and receive medication they may decide to take to peacefully end unbearable suffering. The compassionate legislation has 19 sponsors….
I am not a politician. I am a mom, a grandmother, author, speaker and the founder of The Brave and Beautiful Blood Cancer Foundation, living with multiple myeloma. This incurable disease that has taken over my life since 2017 inspired me to run for office in hopes of bringing better specialists and improving the mediocre…
Hispanic groups are coming together to encourage people to have end-of-life conversations with their loved ones before illness or tragedy strikes. The Hispanic Heritage Foundation and the National Hispanic Council on Aging are teaming up with the nonprofit Compassion & Choices to get people talking about end-of-life planning, hospice, life support, medical power of attorney,…
Compassion & Choices Action Network and advocates today praised legislators in the Assembly Health & Human Services Committee for finishing their work and approving the End of Life Options Act, SB 239, on a 3-2 vote Tuesday afternoon. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Edgar Flores (D-Las Vegas) and 18 other sponsors, now moves to the Senate…
El Nevada Coalition for Death With Dignity, en asociación con Compassion & Choices Action Network, el Death with Dignity National Center, así como los defensores de los enfermos terminales, hicieron hoy un llamado a los miembros del Comité de Salud y Servicios Humanos de la Asamblea, para que aprueben el End of Life Options Act (AB 351 o Medida de Ley de Fin…
Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta joined legislators and medical aid-in-dying supporters to urge passage of a bill that would expand end-of-life options for terminally ill individuals in Nevada on the same day she was honored by the State Legislature. The Death with Dignity bill (SB 165), would allow mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six…
(Carson City) Defensores de la medida de Nevada que permitiría a los adultos con enfermedades terminales terminar pacíficamente con el sufrimiento intolerable, expresaron una gran decepción porque los legisladores estatales no la pudieron aprobar en la sesión legislativa del 2021, pero se comprometieron en autorizarla en el futuro. “Estamos profundamente decepcionados de que se les…
(Carson City) Advocates for Nevada legislation that would allow terminally ill adults to peacefully end intolerable suffering expressed great disappointment that state lawmakers were unable to pass it in the 2021 legislative session, but vowed to pass it in the near future. “We are deeply disappointed that legislators ran out of time to try to…
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