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
Medical aid in dying is for people who are already dying. It is a lawful medical option for qualified adults with a terminal illness, a prognosis of six months or less to live, who can make their own healthcare decisions and have the ability to take the medication themselves.
Medical aid in dying is not suicide or euthanasia. Compassion & Choices supports people seeking information about lawful end-of-life care options in the United States. We do not provide instructions or guidance for ending your life outside supportive medical care.
If you are feeling overwhelmed, in crisis, or thinking about suicide, help is available right now. You are not alone, and your pain deserves care. Call 988, text 988, or chat with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at https://988lifeline.org/chat/
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…
Compassion & Choices elogio a un tribunal superior de Nueva Jersey que a última hora del miércoles otorgó una moción del Procurador General Estatal Gurbir Grewal para desestimar la demanda, Glassman v. Grewal, que busca revocar la ley del estado de 2019, que permite la ayuda médica para morir. La ley permite que los adultos…
An excerpt from The News Journal article, “Dying patients deserve to use NJ aid-in-dying law, state says in arguing against lawsuit,” published March 24, 2020: A doctor, pharmacist and cancer patient trying to overturn New Jersey’s aid-in-dying law are motivated by personal beliefs and their legal rights have not been violated, so their case…
An excerpt from ROI-NJ‘s article, “A day like no other: The first time I helped one of my patients die,” published Feb. 5, 2020: That recent unseasonably warm January day — the one where it hit 60 degrees — was ordinary in many ways for me: I went to the bookstore and bought a…
This has been a turbulent time for the residents of New Jersey. A New Jersey appellate court granted state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s request to overturn a temporary restraining order that had suspended the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act because although the state statute contains regulations, there are no administrative rules…
On Aug. 8, one week after the New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act took effect on Aug. 1, a lone doctor who is also a rabbi filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the law that Compassion & Choices campaigned for seven long years for the legislature to pass it. His…
On Aug. 8, one week after the New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act took effect on Aug. 1, a lone doctor who is also a rabbi filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the law that Compassion & Choices campaigned for seven long years for the legislature to pass it. His…
Compassion & Choices praised a New Jersey appellate court today for overturning a superior court’s temporary restraining order that had suspended the state’s new medical aid-in-dying law. The court’s ruling stated: “Having reviewed the record against the applicable law, we conclude the court abused its discretion in awarding preliminary injunctive relief…Accordingly, we dissolve the restraints…
Compassion & Choices elogió hoy a un tribunal de apelaciones de Nueva Jersey por revocar la orden de restricción temporal de un tribunal superior que había suspendido la nueva ley de ayuda médica para morir del estado. El fallo del tribunal declaró: “Habiendo revisado el registro contra la ley aplicable, concluimos que el tribunal abusó…
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