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House passes End of Life Options Act after hours of debate
Summary
The Delaware House passed House Bill 140, the End of Life Options Act, after extended debate over safeguards, training, and implementation. The bill allows terminally ill, competent adults to request and self-administer prescribed medication to hasten death and passed 21-17 with 3 absent.
House Bill 140, the End of Life Options Act, passed the Delaware House on a 21-17 vote with three members absent after extended floor debate on safeguards, training and how the law would be implemented.
Sponsor Representative Melissa A. Morrison, who brought the bill forward, said the measure allows “terminally ill Delawareans [to] choose to limit or avoid terrible suffering” and described the statutory safeguards that would be required. She said the bill requires that the patient be diagnosed with a terminal illness with a prognosis of six months or less, that the patient request medication and self-administer it, and that at least one medical or mental health professional find the…
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