{"id":21979,"date":"2024-06-07T21:44:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2024\/06\/07\/documentary-promotes-aid-in-dying-bills\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T21:44:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:44:35","slug":"documentary-promotes-aid-in-dying-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/documentary-promotes-aid-in-dying-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Promotes Aid-in-Dying Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/899111039\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2024\/06\/2024-6-6-serene-meshel-dillman_SMD_640x640.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2024\/06\/2024-6-6-serene-meshel-dillman_SMD_640x640.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"first-para\">Compassion &amp; Choices, a group that supports state medical aid-in-dying bills, has helped produce \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/outfeetfirst.vhx.tv\/checkout\/take-me-out-feet-first\/gift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take Me Out Feet First<\/a>,\u201d a documentary series about the topic.<\/p>\n<p>The Littleton, Colorado-based group backed Serene Meshel-Dillman, a California filmmaker who created the series to show how California\u2019s End of Life Option Act affected her parents.<\/p>\n<p>Meshel-Dillman\u2019s parents moved to California from New York in the early 1990s. Both of them were diagnosed with cancer. Her mother used life-ending care in 2017, and her father used life-ending care in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Meshel-Dillman said her parents had control over when their life ended because they moved to California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would not have had that option if they still had lived in New York,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means:<\/strong> The demographic age shift that\u2019s generating discussions about retirement income planning and estate planning is leading to more conversations about hospice care and end-of-life options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislation:<\/strong> Compassion &amp; Choices says 12 states have enacted medical aid-in-dying laws.<\/p>\n<p>Two aid-in-dying bills in New York state, A995a and S2445a, have attracted support from 88 co-sponsors, the group says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The opposition:<\/strong> Many religious groups, groups for people with disabilities and medical groups continue to oppose aid-in-dying legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compassion &amp; Choices, a group that supports state medical aid-in-dying bills, has helped produce \u201cTake Me Out Feet First,\u201d a documentary series about the topic. The Littleton, Colorado-based group backed Serene Meshel-Dillman, a California&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/documentary-promotes-aid-in-dying-bills.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}