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End-of-Life-Care Physician-Assisted Suicide

Rivkin Radler LLP

Is It Time for Medically Assisted End of Life?

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While a 2024 poll indicated New Yorkers’ overwhelming support for New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act for terminally ill people (M.A.I.D), the act had not been approved by the legislature each time it had been presented,...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

New York Proposes Legislation to Provide Terminally Ill Persons a Medication to Peacefully End Their Life

Now Is the Right Time to Consult with Legal Counsel About Preparing Advance Directives that Reflect End-of-Life Wishes- New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A136/S138) is once again before the New York State Legislature in...more

White and Williams LLP

New Jersey Enacts Aid in Dying Act

New Jersey recently enacted the Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (the Act), which took effect on August 1, 2019. Under the Act, New Jersey residents with an irreversibly fatal disease or those with a prognosis of death...more

Morris James LLP

Delaware’s Death with Dignity/End of Life Options/Physician-Assisted Suicide Debate Continues with House Bill 140

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Representative Paul Baumbach yesterday re-introduced his “End of Life Options” legislation as House Bill 140. This marks the third iteration of the bill, which began as House Bill 150 “Death with Dignity” in 2015, which was...more

Cole Schotz

New Jersey Legalizes Prescriptions For Self-Administered Medication To End Life For Qualified Terminally Ill Patients

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On April 12, 2019, New Jersey enacted the “Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act.” (P.L. 2019, Ch. 59). The bill authorizes an adult resident of New Jersey, who has capacity and whose attending physician has determined to...more

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