Faced with a terminal diagnosis, people in your state deserve the full range end-of-life care options, including medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying allows terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their life peacefully.
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Bill Would Have Allowed Terminally Ill Utahns the Option to Die Peacefully, Not Painfully (Salt Lake City, UT) Today, for the first time in five years, Utah lawmakers held a hearing on a bill that would have allowed terminally ill Utah adults the option to peacefully end their suffering if it becomes unbearable. The bill…
On January 22, 2020, Utah Rep. Jen Daily-Provost was quoted in the Daily Herald about her support for medical aid-in-dying legislation, “Dailey-Provost said the proposal reflects the goal of a society that respects life and the hope that everyone should have the most fulfilling and meaningful life possible. That includes being able to ‘preserve the…
(Utah – Feb 25, 2016) This week, the The Utah Chapter of the Legislative Coalition for People with Disabilities expressed its support for the End of Life Options Act (H.B. 264), a bill modeled after Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, which would authorize terminally ill adults in Utah to seek medical aid in dying should their suffering become…
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