Overview

• Lynda Bluestein, a terminally ill woman from Connecticut, ended her life in Vermont using the state's medical aid in dying law.
• Bluestein's action was made possible after a lawsuit she filed in 2022 led to a settlement allowing her, a non-resident, to use Vermont's law.
• Vermont's law, in effect since 2013, allows physicians to prescribe lethal medication to people with an incurable illness expected to kill them within six months.
• Bluestein had been a lifelong activist and had pushed for similar legislation in Connecticut and New York, which has not yet been passed.
• Vermont and Oregon are the only states that allow non-residents to access medically assisted suicide.