After historical movement during the 2024 legislative session, the decision was made to not file medical aid-in-dying bills in the 2025 legislative session. Instead, advocates are doing community outreach, presenting and talking with Virginians across the Commonwealth about this compassionate end-of-life option. We anticipate bills being filed in the 2026 legislative session.
Virginia residents were recently polled about their support for this compassionate option. Regardless of their political affiliation, religion, age, race and other factors, seven out of 10 Virginians voiced their support. Learn more.
One day before the first hearing ever on Virginia’s Death with Dignity Act Thursday by the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the bill authors, a Virginian with incurable cancer and the end-of-life care advocacy group Compassion & Choices held a Zoom news conference to urge the Legislature to pass the bill. (Journalists can obtain…
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