The bill allows terminally ill patients to request a doctor prescribe medication that they can self-administer to hasten their death.

For roughly the past decade, advocates have pushed for New York to approve a law that would allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives with the assistance of their doctor. On Tuesday, the Assembly passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act for the first ...

Sen. Charles E. Sydnor III (D-Baltimore County), left, talks wth Senate Judicial Proceedings Chair William C. Smith Jr. (D-Montgomery). Photo by Bryan P. Sears/Maryland Matters) A decade-long fight over whether to let terminally ill patients hasten their ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Democratic state legislators behind the Medical Aid in Dying Act expect its imminent passing in both the Assembly and the Senate. Several of those legislators—including the bill’s longtime sponsor, Assemblymember Amy Paulin ...

Brittany Maynard chose medical aid in dying after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. Maynard's husband, Dan Diaz, became her caregiver and supported her decision to move to Oregon for access to the state's Death with Dignity Act. Medical aid in ...

Illinois now joins at least 10 other states, among them California, Hawaii, Colorado, Oregon, as well as Washington, D.C., in allowing medical aid in dying.