Only N.J. residents are permitted to use the medical aid in dying law
signed in 2019 that limits participation to Garden State residents. The state is violating these patients’ rights under the U.S.
“I don’t want to die fearfully,” said Govatos, a retired nonprofit executive who was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. “I want to die affirming that I’ve had this opportunity to be alive in this amazing world and to say goodbye and I love you to my family and friends.” “To be effective clinicians, Drs. Bryman and Pasik must establish trusting relationships with patients, families and providers at a medically complex and highly emotional time,” said attorney David B. Bassett of New York, who is co-counsel in the case. “Medical aid in dying is the lone medical care option in their day-to-day practice for which a patient’s lack of New Jersey residency categorically denies to those clinicians the otherwise appropriate care that they can provide to their patients.
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