Since being enacted in 2019, the New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying Act has had a threshold condition on a patient’s request for medication under the Act: that they be an “adult resident of New Jersey.” The physician’s record must contain documentation of the patient’s status as a resident of New Jersey, whether in the
New Jersey enacted the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (MAID) in 2019, becoming one of eleven jurisdictions including the District of Columbia to recognize a patient’s ability to obtain physician assistance for the purpose of obtaining medication to end a life burdened by terminal illness.
Massachusetts is not one of the
In an article recently published in the MDAdvisor Journal, Greenbaum attorney John Zen Jackson analyzes the number of times the option to self-administer medication under the Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAID) has been used in New Jersey on an annual basis. Resources in this article include statistics from five demographic categories, a comparison of