Compassion & Choices
+1 800 247-7421
info@compassionandchoices.org
www.compassionandchoices.org
Compassion & Choices, a nonprofit organization, improves care and expands choice at the end of life. We support, educate and advocate.
Support
Compassion & Choices’ Consultation program uses the power of choice and comfort to restore hope to individuals and their loved ones at the end of life. Our professional staff and trained volunteers help thousands of clients each year by listening without judgment to their fears and guiding their search for a peaceful, humane death.
Educate
Compassion & Choices promotes informed end-of-life decision making by educating the public and advising health care professionals. Too many health care professionals turn away from their dying patients. Too many Americans are unprepared to navigate the complex options and restrictions surrounding the end of life. We employ educational training programs, media outreach and online and print publications to change healthcare practice, inform policy-makers, influence public opinion and empower individuals.
Advocate
Compassion & Choices devotes itself to creative legal and legislative initiatives to secure comprehensive and compassionate options at the end of life. We set national standards for end-of-life care and assert constitutional protection for aid in dying. Our team of litigators and legislative experts fights bills that would force patients to endure futile, invasive treatment; sets enforceability standards for advance directives; mandates pain and palliative care training for physicians; monitors legislative and policy initiatives; and ultimately shapes best-practice standards for end-of-life care.
USA Washington state reports on first nine months of their DWD Act (2009)
March 6, 2010: Washinton state publishes its first numbers on the now one year old DWD Act, started on March 5, 2009. 63 Terminally ill Washingtonians used the act in the first nine months to procure a prescription, only 36 actually died after ingestion. This was rfeported at a C&C Conference organised for the first birthday of the act.
USA: with Montana now three States providing legal aid-in-dying
February 18, 2010: Because of a ruling by the Montana Supreme Court in January 2010 - following the 2008 verdict of Montana District Court Judge Dorothy McCarter - saying that "nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide", now three States (Oregon, Washington and Montana) provide its residents with legal aid-in-dying
USA Symposium on End-of-life advocacy
September 21, 2009: On 13 and 14 October, 2009, Compassion & Choices is proud to present the
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