We had a lovely time in Freeport on October 5, 2022, with the good folks at Maine Senior Guide. Maine Death with Dignity's Executive Director, Val Lovelace, was the keynote speaker!
Author: Valerie Lovelace
Press Release: Mainers with Terminal Illness Gain a Dignified Option for Life’s End
Governor Mills Signing of the Maine Death with Dignity Act Culminates Grassroorts Campaign to Expand End-of-Life Options Maine Death with Dignity applauds Governor Janet Mills for signing the Death with Dignity Act into law today. Valerie Lovelace, Steering Committee Chair said, “With Governor Mills' signature, Maine proudly joinsCONTINUE READING »
Press Release: Maine Death with Dignity Urges Support for LD 1313
Grassroots Group Leads Campaign to Offer Option for Life’s End Augusta, March 22, 2019—Maine Death with Dignity is urging the state legislature to pass LD 1313, an assisted dying bill. The Maine Death with Dignity Act, introduced by Rep. Patricia Hymanson (D-York) with a bipartisan group of co-sponsorsCONTINUE READING »
Cyndie’s Story
Cyndie Rogers is a Maine Death with Dignity volunteer in Gray, Maine. She told this story to the Death with Dignity National Center in January 2019. * Since 2015, I have been living with lymphoma. Just before Thanksgiving last year, I learned I have breast cancer as well.CONTINUE READING »
Chris’s Story: Keeping A Promise
Chris Trider is a retired electrician in Leeds and a Maine Death with Dignity volunteer. He told the Death with Dignity National Center this story in January 2019. * My wife, Karen, passed away from liver cancer in October 2018. When doctors discovered the cancer several months earlier,CONTINUE READING »
Why I Volunteer
by Karen Hinson, volunteer petition circulator, Town of Machias, Maine * I learned death was part of life at an early age. The doctors, nurses, and dentists in my family talked about blood and guts at the dinner table. As a hospice volunteer I later learned of theCONTINUE READING »
Donna Wiegle: “The Choice About How Things Go”
Donna Wiegle is the founder of Eldercare Outreach of Swan's Island. She lives in Swan's Island. She told us this story, which first appeared at Death with Dignity National Center's website, in June 2018. * I survived my first bout with cancer nearly 30 years ago. Then, inCONTINUE READING »
Press Release: Petition Launched for Assisted Dying Ballot Measure
Maine Death with Dignity Leads Effort to Offer Humane Option for Life’s End Augusta, April 19, 2018—Maine Death with Dignity has begun gathering signatures for a petition to place an assisted dying measure on the ballot. The law would allow adult Maine residents who have had two physiciansCONTINUE READING »
Three in Four Mainers Support Death with Dignity Legislation
A year ago today, a poll released by Public Policy Polling showed that nearly 3 of 4 Maine voters overwhelmingly support legislation expanding the right of terminally ill patients with less than six months to live to legally obtain prescription medication to end their lives. The poll shows 73 percentCONTINUE READING »
Press Release: Signature Gathering to Begin for Assisted Dying Ballot Measure
Maine Death with Dignity Leads Effort to Offer Humane Option for Life’s End Augusta, March 20, 2018—A petition by Wiscasset-based Maine Death with Dignity to place an assisted dying measure on the ballot is in the final stage of approval by the Secretary of State’s office. The lawCONTINUE READING »