NC Republican and conservative voters overwhelmingly believe that competent, terminally ill adults “should have the legal option to take life-ending medication prescribed by a doctor,” also known as medical aid in dying (MAiD).
A constitutional challenge by a 75-year-old terminally-ill Bridgeport, Connectiut woman, Lynda Bluestein, and a Middlebury, Vt doctor specialising in hospice and palliative care, to the …
An article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society calculated the number of Americans to have availed themselves of Medical Aid in Dying laws …
A recent poll commissioned by Dying Right NC and carried out by the nonpartisan OH Predictive Insights group confirms that conservative GOP voters widely support …
The story is all too familiar: on July 13, a 77-year old man telephoned 911 to report he had killed his suffering 71-year old wife …
When MAID legislation was first proposed in the late 1990s, there were dire predictions that “physician assisted suicide” (as it was commonly called back in …
It was all too foreseeable; all too common; all too tragic. A 64-year old Florida veteran Thomas Schultz, acting as caregiver simultaneously to his terminally …
Medical Paternalism on the Brink Doctors have always enjoyed an undeniable prestige, an almost mystical clairvoyance and Solomonic judgment in the eyes of their patients. …
Some Thoughts on Gideonse vs Brown Oregon’s land-mark decision impacts North Carolinians at End of Life On March 25, 2022, as a result of …
Oregon will waive residency requirements In a significant development with potentially national implications, the State of Oregon has agreed to waive its residency requirements for …
A North Carolina native made quadriplegic through a tragic accident weeks before her wedding speaks up on MAID
California’s End of Life Option Act came into effect in 2016, with a sunset clause of 2026. However, since then, patients, clinicians and advocates have …
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