June 9, 2025 marked an incredible moment for our end of life options movement, as our ten-year campaign to bring medical aid in dying to the Empire State is almost complete, with the legislature passing the bill authorizing this peaceful medical practice.

The bill now moves to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk. Our team is working around the clock to show her why New Yorkers need this compassionate option. We won’t stop until we make New York the 13th jurisdiction to authorize medical aid in dying.

This year’s win is the culmination of decades of work. Even before we were called Compassion & Choices, earlier versions of our organization like the Hemlock Society and Compassion & Care worked for years to improve end of life healthcare for New Yorkers, including ensuring passage of “Right to Know” laws and ensuring everyone has appropriate access to pain medicine.

Corinne Carey, Compassion & Choices senior campaign director for New York/New Jersey, led this campaign from its early days to recent success ensuring lawmakers and the public alike know that medical aid in dying is a loving, compassionate option for terminally ill individuals and their families.

Corinne partnered with dedicated advocates like Brian Moffett, who spent his final weeks living with ALS pushing for this bill, and later, whose son, Jake Moffett took up the fight on his behalf.

This victory means so much to us at Compassion & Choices and serves as a guiding light for advocates and volunteers around the country who show up year after year to see this legislation realized in their state. It’s also in honor of the advocates who’ve died in pain when lawmakers don’t act – including the 28 advocates Compassion & Choices knows of who died during the New York campaign. This win is for them and each of you, our supporters and friends in the movement to realize end-of-life options for all.

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