No.

Medical aid in dying (MAID), the term used when terminally ill patients are prescribed lethal doses of medications to end their own lives, is illegal in Nevada.

Nevada lawmakers have introduced bills to legalize MAID in every legislative session since 2015. The bill that got closest was 2023’s SB239, passing both chambers before Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed it. 

In his veto message, Lombardo wrote that “improvements in advanced pain management” made MAID unnecessary.

Sometimes called physician-assisted suicide, MAID is different from euthanasia, which is medical providers directly administering lethal medications. 

Proponents say MAID allows terminally ill patients who are mentally competent to avoid unnecessary suffering and die on their own terms. Opponents argue it is unethical for the government to authorize the practice and difficult to determine which forms of chronic pain should qualify. 

As of November 2025, MAID is legal in 11 states and the District of Columbia.

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Sources

• Nevada Revised Statutes, 449.575a.
• Gov. Joe Lombardo, veto message regarding Senate Bill 239 of the 2023 legislative session.
• 2023 legislative session, SB239.
• Death with Dignity, Timeline of Death with Dignity in Nevada.
• Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, “Pros and Cons of Physician Aid in Dying,” Dec. 20, 2019.