Renowned Artist Jackie Ferrara Dead at 95 Through Medical Aid In Dying

World-renowned artist Jackie Ferrara has handed away at 95 — selecting to finish her life via medical support.

Jackie — whose work is featured in collections on the Museum of Modern Art — died final Wednesday, her property and legacy adviser Tina Hejtmanek confirmed. She had traveled to Basel, Switzerland, the place she selected to finish her life at Pegasos, a nonprofit clinic for assisted dying.

Jackie was based mostly in NYC, the place Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) isn’t authorized — and within the U.S. states the place it is authorized, sufferers should be terminally sick, which she wasn’t. That’s why she traveled to Switzerland, the place the regulation doesn’t require somebody to be terminally sick.

Important to notice … medical support in dying isn’t the identical as euthanasia. Euthanasia is prohibited within the U.S., and that’s when a health care provider provides the medicine. With medical support, the affected person takes the meds themselves.

Jackie lately informed “The New York Times” that though she was in good well being, she felt able to go — explaining that after taking two falls up to now 12 months, she by no means needed to finish up depending on others.

Jackie was 95.