Medical aid in dying was enacted in New Jersey on August 1, 2019.
On January 13, 2026, a bill to improve (S710) NJ’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act was introduced by Senators John Burzichelli and Patrick J. Diegnan, Jr. The bill is assigned to the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee.
New Jersey Death with Dignity is a 501c3 organization that provides services, education, and end-of-life advocacy
El Departamento de Salud de Nueva Jersey publicó un informe mostrando que 33 residentes del estado en 16 condados con enfermedades terminales utilizaron en el 2020 la Ley de Ayuda Médica para Morir en 16 condados del estado, para terminar pacíficamente con su sufrimiento. (un promedio de 2.75 adultos cada mes). El 94% de las…
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…
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