{"id":3912,"date":"2019-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/dignitas-news-en-264\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:08:43","slug":"death-with-dignity-act-signed-in-the-u-s-state-of-maine","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/death-with-dignity-act-signed-in-the-u-s-state-of-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDeath with Dignity Act\u201d signed in the U.S. state of Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On 12 June 2019, in the U.S. state of Maine, Governor Janet Mills signed the \u201cDeath with Dignity Act\u201d, after the bill passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Act permits competent terminally ill residents of Maine with a prognosis of six months or less to get a physicians\u2019 prescription for life-ending medication for self-administering so they can end their life in a humane and dignified manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deathwithdignity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-ME-LD-1313.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full text of the act LD1313 (link \/ pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deathwithdignity.org\/states\/maine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Further resources (link)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 June 2019, in the U.S. state of Maine, Governor Janet Mills signed the \u201cDeath with Dignity Act\u201d, after the bill passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Act permits competent terminally ill residents of Maine with a prognosis of six months or less to get a physicians\u2019 prescription for life-ending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[539],"class_list":["post-3912","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-usa-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}