Medical aid in dying was enacted in New Jersey on August 1, 2019.
On January 9, 2024, Assemblymember Herb Conaway introduced bill A1880, which waives or reduces the waiting period between requests for medical aid in dying if the person is not expected to survive that time frame. A companion bill (S3588) was introduced by Senator John Burzichelli on Sept. 19, 2024. The bills were referred to the Assembly Health Committee and Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, respectively.
Threats to the law: A bill that would repeal NJ’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A407), and a bill making it a crime of the first degree to coerce a patient to request medical aid in dying or forge a patient’s request for medical aid in dying (A406) were both introduced in the 2024-2025 session. Both bills were referred to the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
New Jersey Death with Dignity is a 501c3 organization that provides services, education, and end-of-life advocacy
By more than a 2-to-one margin (63% to 29%) of New Jersey residents 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.
Dr. Deborah Pasik (Photo/Mel Evans) Dr. Deborah Pasik has practiced Rheumatology in Morristown, New Jersey, for 33 years. In 2014, just as the very public media story about Brittany Maynard’s move to Oregon to access the Death with Dignity Act was widely publicized, Dr. Pasik’s beloved brother was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, the same…
El Departamento de Salud de Nueva Jersey, informó el viernes por la tarde que 12 residentes del estado con enfermedades terminales, utilizaron el Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act o Ley de Ayuda Médica para Morir para Enfermos Terminales, para poner fin a su sufrimiento de forma pacífica. Dicho reporte indica que…
The New Jersey Department of Health reported late Friday afternoon that 12 terminally ill state residents used the state’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act to peacefully end their suffering during the first five months since the law was implemented on Aug. 1, 2019, thru Dec. 31, 2019. Since the law took…
Dos días antes del primer aniversario del Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act o Ley Ayuda Médica para Morir Para Enfermos Terminales de Nueva Jersey, Compassion & Choices informa que 42 centros médicos grandes, así como hospitales y centros de cuidados paliativos u hospicios como se le conoce en Estados Unidos, han…
Two days before the 1st anniversary of New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, Compassion & Choices reports that 42 large medical centers, hospitals, and hospices across the state have adopted policies allowing their doctors to offer this peaceful dying option to terminally ill patients who request it. The nonprofit, end-of-life…
The New Jersey Law Journal praised State Superior Court Judge Robert Lougy for granting a motion on April 1 by state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal to dismiss a lawsuit, Glassman v. Grewal, seeking to overturn the state’s 2019 Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act. The editorial, “Death with Dignity Act Decision Should…
A lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s medical aid-in-dying law on religious grounds is dismissed; we remain poised for the next challenge.
An excerpt from NJ.com, “There’s an urgent need for people to plan now how they want their life to end | Opinion,” by Compassion & Choices President and CEO Kim Callinan, published April 17, 2020: There is an unprecedented urgent need for people to engage in informed, educated end-of-life care discussions. If more individuals take…
Compassion & Choices praised a New Jersey superior court that late Wednesday granted a motion by state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal to dismiss a lawsuit, Glassman v. Grewal, seeking to overturn the state’s 2019 medical aid-in-dying law. The law allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to get a…
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