Recent changes to the "Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) provisions in the Criminal Code, allow medical or nurse practitioners in Canada to provide MAID to patients who request assistance in dying, who later lose the...more
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
Primum non nocere. "First do no harm" has been promised by medical students since the fifth century B.C. But times have changed....more
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
IN THIS ISSUE - Real facts about suicide too often are shrouded by destructive myths - The eternal question: What makes life worth living? - A key first step: Spotting someone at risk - Soothing survivors by just...more
Everyone Has the Right to Refuse Life Saving Medical Treatment But New York Statutes Prohibiting Assisted Suicide Are Constitutional - Kirk Kekorian, a medical doctor, brought nationwide attention to the idea of assisting...more
In June 2016, California became the fifth state to enact an aid-in-dying law. California’s End of Life Option Act (the “Act”) authorizes an adult who is suffering from a terminal disease and meets other qualifications to...more
Yesterday, Nico van Aelstyn, a principal in Beveridge & Diamond’s San Francisco office, filed a lawsuit in the San Francisco Superior Court on behalf of plaintiffs seeking to clarify the ability of mentally competent,...more
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada released its landmark end-of-life decision in Carter v Canada (Attorney General). The Court unanimously held that the prohibition on aiding or abetting a person to commit suicide in the...more
In a case being closely watched by baby boomers throughout the country caring for aging parents, a Pennsylvania nurse has been charged with helping her 93-year-old father commit suicide. Barbara Mancini allegedly handed her...more