{"id":4454,"date":"2019-09-16T12:58:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2020-04-17T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:07:08","slug":"new-jerseys-new-death-with-dignity-act-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/new-jerseys-new-death-with-dignity-act-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey\u2019s New Death with Dignity Act Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey\u2019s passage of the \u201cAid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act\u201d makes it the eighth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to request medication to end their lives. The bill was signed into law by Governor Murphy on April 12, 2019, and became effective on August 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In brief, the new law allows New Jersey residents who are terminally ill to obtain medication from their physician that will likely result in death a few hours after it is ingested. Specifically, the law requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The person must be a \u201cqualified terminally ill patient,\u201d which is defined as a capable adult who is in the terminal stage of an irreversibly fatal illness, disease, or condition with a prognosis, based upon reasonable medical certainty, of a life expectancy of six months or less. This status must be determined by the person\u2019s attending physician and confirmed by a consulting physician.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/new-jerseys-new-death-with-dignity-act-explained.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading New Jersey\u2019s New Death with Dignity Act Explained\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey\u2019s passage of the \u201cAid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act\u201d makes it the eighth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to request medication to end their lives. The bill was signed into law by Governor Murphy on April 12, 2019, and became effective on August 1, 2019. 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