Advocates of “aid-in-dying” lost a bid to exempt the practice from state laws banning assisted suicide when the Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously rejected their claims Tuesday.
The plaintiffs in Myers v. Schneiderman, 151162/15, included five physicians who sought to legalize prescribing lethal medications for terminally ill patients in unbearable physical pain who are seeking to end their lives. They argued the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the state constitution guarantees a right to administer aid-in-dying measures.
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