The New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, A1504/S1072 allows: A terminally ill, mentally capable adult with a prognosis of six months or less to live, the option to request, obtain and take medication — should they decide — to die peacefully in their sleep if their suffering becomes unbearable. The bill is modeled after the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, a law that has been in effect for 20 years without a single substantiated instance of abuse or coercion. The New Jersey bill includes the same time-tested and proven safeguards, regulatory and procedural requirements that the Oregon bill authorizes, as well as the laws in six other authorized jurisdictions (Washington, Vermont, California, Colorado, Hawai’i and Washington, D.C.). This document below outlines responses to misleading or false statements being circulated in New Jersey.
