Countless New Yorkers suffer every day the New York State Legislature delays a vote on the Medical Aid in Dying Act. Each day until lawmakers adjourned for 2021, Compassion & Choices shared with lawmakers 60 Reasons to pass the bill NOW. Read each reason below, then urge your lawmakers to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act NOW.
See the advocates behind each reason in our "60 Reasons" booklet, linked here.
Reason #1: Because this isn't about politics. It's about peace at the end of life...
Reason #6: So that no one's brother has to die alone to protect his family from prosecution...
Reason #7: So that no one's sister has to research the best way to take her own life...
Reason #17: Because sometimes the greatest reverence for life is to end human suffering...
Reason #19: So that all New Yorkers have the opportunity to be masters of their own fate...
Reason #33: Because even excellent hospice care can't alleviate all suffering...
Reason #38: So that no one's strong Irish Catholic dad has to beg for help to die...
Reason #43: So that no one has to watch her once-vibrant husband starve to death...
Reason #46: Because health justice means allowing people agency at the end of their lives...
Reason #49: "Because preventing doctors from prescribing medication to a dying patient that they can take to end their lives peacefully causes unnecessary suffering and harm... / el evitar que los médicos receten un medicamento a un paciente que se está muriendo para terminar su vida pacíficamente, causa sufrimiento y daño innecesario....
Reason #50: So the last moments of a loved one’s life can be spent embracing them...
Reason #59: Because families benefit when dying people can chart their own end-of-life journey...
Reason #60: Because every year lawmakers fail to act, more New Yorkers suffer...