HB 410

Includes whereas clauses. Directs the NC Institute of Medicine to study legalizing "medical aid in dying"" (MAID). The study will include evaluating 17 specified issues, including evaluation of the 11 US jurisdictions that have legalized MAID, including the processes required of patients to apply for and get approved to use MAID, contributing factors for patients to seek the use of MAID, patient demographics, social and emotional impacts on family members, types of MAID medications, opt-out options for physicians, current NC options for end of life care, MAID legislation since Oregon's 1997 Death with Dignity Act, estimation of NC individuals who would use MAID, evidence of coercion, effect on healthcare operations, impact on awareness of hospice and palliative care as an alternative, motivations to use the MAID program but not opt to take the life-ending medication, and other topics as appropriate."