Colorado: End of Life Options Act expanded
Nurses may evaluate and administer and waiting times are shortened
June 24, 2024
Colorado
Legal situation
In short
In 2016, the Colorado End of Life Options Act was signed.
Colorado End of Life Options Act
The Act is modelled after Oregon’s ‘Death with Dignity law’. Colorado’s aid-in-dying law says adult patients can obtain the prescription if two physicians agree that they have a terminal illness and less than six months to live.
Colorado is the 5th state to codify the procedures and safeguard in the law books, allowing aid in dying.
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