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Compassion News

08.31.10

A dying patient is not a battlefield


by Theresa Brown
CNN.com

The patient, in his late 70s, had survived prostate cancer and had a new diagnosis of leukemia. A few days before, he’d been healthy and fine, but now his white blood cell count was so high that it was clogging his circulatory system, making it hard for him to breathe.

We brought his white count down and relieved his shortness of breath....

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08.23.10

Palliative Care Extends Life, Study Finds

08.12.10

Its the ?Life? in End-of-Life That Matters

08.09.10

Palliative Care Information Act will allow for better end-of-life choices

Compassion Blog

End-of-Life Consultation and Changing Medicine

The Summer 2010 edition of the Compassion & Choices Magazine features our End-of-Life Consultation Service, the oldest and most comprehensive program in the nation offering candid, authoritative information and non-judgmental support to individuals who want to meet death in comfort and control.

Our Consultation program began seventeen years ago, in 1993. Back then common wisdom said anyone offering concrete information about how to achieve a peaceful and humane death would soon be prosecuted and jailed...

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