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 urgió al médico que, sólo, presentó una demanda para anular la Ley de Ayuda Médica para Morir de Nueva Jersey y al asambleísta que autorizó la revocación de la ley para que desistan en sus esfuerzos, ya que los enfermos terminales de Nueva Jersey que no tienen derecho a la enmienda y…
Compassion & Choices urged a lone physician who has filed a lawsuit to overturn New Jersey’s medical aid-in-dying law and an Assemblyman who has authored legislation to repeal it to drop their efforts because they will cause terminally ill New Jerseyans unable to access law to suffer needlessly. Bergen Assemblyman Robert Auth and Bergenfield physician…
Compassion & Choices is vowing to overturn a New Jersey judge’s ruling temporarily suspending the implementation of the state’s new medical aid-in-dying law because the state did not issue regulations for the law before it took effect on Aug. 1. The restraining order is in response to a lawsuit, Glassman v. Grewal, filed by a…
Compassion & Choices se compromete a revocar el fallo de un juez de Nueva Jersey que dictaminó la suspensión de implementación temporal de la nueva ley de ayuda médica para morir estatal, debido a que el estado no emitió reglamentos para la ley antes de que entrara en vigor el 1º de agosto del presente…
Compassion & Choices lanzó hoy un nuevo video para educar a los residentes de Nueva Jersey sobre la ley Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act o Ayuda Médica para Morir para Enfermos Terminales que entra en vigor a partir de hoy. El video educativo de 30 segundos insta a los residentes de…
Compassion & Choices released a new video today to educate New Jerseyans about the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act that takes effect starting today. The 30-second educational video urges New Jerseyans to discuss their end-of-life care options with their doctors and is being promoted on Facebook (www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2330322593901893) and Twitter (twitter.com/CompAndChoices/status/1156912464107331584). The…
Kevin “Racks” Roster, Jr., a terminally ill, 36-year-old native New Yorker, who moved from his longtime home in New Jersey to California, so he could access its medical aid-in-dying law to peacefully end his suffering from sarcoma, died on Friday, July 26. He died peacefully in his sleep shortly after taking the aid-in-dying medication, surrounded…
Kevin “Racks” Roster, Jr., neoyorquino nativo de 36 años con una enfermedad terminal, que se mudó de su hogar en Nueva Jersey a California, para poder tener acceso a la ley de ayuda médica para morir y terminar en forma pacífica con su sufrimiento por un sarcoma, falleció el viernes, 26 de julio. Murió pacíficamente…
New Jerseyans with terminal or life-shortening diseases and family members whose loved ones needlessly died in agony applauded Governor Phil Murphy as they watched him this afternoon sign the historic Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (S1072/A1504) into law. Nearly seven years after the bill’s original introduction, the state Assembly approved the…
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