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In her newsletter of January the 15th, the non-profit member society DIGNITAS (To live with dignity – To die with dignity) reflects on the year 2018 and gives an outlook for 2019.
On January 8, the opponents of California's End of Life Option Act have petitioned the California Supreme Court to review last year's Fourth Court of Appeal decision denying them standing in the case. Last November
Veteran of 40 years involvement with the right-to-die movement, in the USA and worldwide, Sidney D. Rosoff died on 4 January 2019 at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 94. He was founding president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies in l980.
In Hawaii, The Our Care, Our Choice Act went into effect on January 1st of this new year.
Dying with Dignity Canada published its December 2018 Newsletter.
On December 19, 2018, New Mexico State Representative Deborah Armstrong pre-filed a bill (End of Life Options Act), which she plans to introduce in January 2019.
Last October the Dutch Assessment committee about late termination of pregnancy and termination of life in newborns published its annual report over 2017.
On November 7 a symposium was held in the European Parliament, hosted by two MEP's (Hilde Vautmans [ALDE] and Josep-Maria Terricabras (Greens/EFA]) on the instigation of DMD Catalunya and RtD-Europe, titled What can be done at European level and