Maine Death with Dignity
Support, education and advocacy for everyone in Maine, built around the state's Death with Dignity Act.
United States
North America About the society.
Maine Death with Dignity is a nonprofit offering end-of-life support, advocacy and fact-based education to anyone who calls Maine home. Its main work is helping the Maine Death with Dignity Act work in practice, so that patients, providers and policy makers have clear information about it.
It began in 2014 as It's My Death. Its ballot campaign collected more than 77,000 signatures, and its initiative text became the starting point for the bill the Governor signed in June 2019. The Act took effect that September.
It explains who qualifies and how the law works, guides doctors through the process, runs free online classes and community talks, publishes the state's annual reports on the law's use, and campaigns against the federal funding ban that affects veterans and Medicare patients. It is not a clinic and gives no medical advice.
What they do
- For patientsWho qualifies, request forms and the process.
- For providersChecklists and guidance for clinicians.
- EducationFree online classes and community talks.
- AdvocacyCampaigning against the federal funding ban.
Where the law stands in United States.
Legal in 13 states and Washington D.C., and in Montana by court ruling.
- Status
- Legal (State Level)
- Member societies here
- 9
Other member societies in United States.
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A Better Exit
abetterexit.org -
Choice and Dignity Inc.
choiceanddignity.org -
Death with Dignity National Center
deathwithdignity.org -
Dying Right North Carolina
dyingrightnc.org -
End of Life Washington
endoflifewa.org -
Final Exit Network
finalexitnetwork.org -
Hemlock Society of San Diego
hemlocksocietysandiego.org -
The Completed Life Initiative
completedlife.org