Press Releases:

Doctors, Patients Disappointed in Court Decision

Oregon Hospice Expert to Address End-of-Life Care & Issues in Great Falls

Oregon Hospice Expert to Address End-of-Life Care & Issues in Helena 

Compassion & Choices congratulates Jane Stephens Comer on Gloria Award from Ms. Foundation for Women

Preventable Tragedy Highlights Need for Aid in Dying

Compassion & Choices voices concern over nomination of Friar Daniel Sulmasy to medical ethics panel

My mother did not commit suicide.

Information on our recent legal work:

Connecticut: Blick v. Connecticut

Montana Death With Dignity

More Resources

Bios

> Barbara Coombs Lee’s Bio (PDF)»
> Kathryn Tucker’s Bio (PDF)»

Fact Sheets

Language Matters»
Current U.S. Policy is Cruel»
Why Physicians Support Death With Dignity»
Death With Dignity and Disabilities»
Access to Care»

Medical and Professional Research

Study: Feeding tube use is independently associated with nursing homes’ fiscal, organizational, and demographic features. You can read a Providence Journal story here, quoting the author of the study, Dr. Joan M. Teno, as saying she is concerned that Catholic hospitals may be trying to override the wishes of patients when they insist on feeding tubes. The full study, "Feeding Tube Placement in Nursing Home Residents," can be found here: Full Study>> 

Study: End of life discussion benefits patients and families.
Read the full press release here(PDF)». The study, "Associations Between End-Of-Life Discussion, Patient Mental Health, Medical Care Near Death and Caregiver Bereavement Adjustment," can be found here: Full Study»

Study: All patients using Oregon Death With Dignity Act were mentally competent to make informed choice.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal also found that patients who received prescriptions under the Act were less anxious or hopeless than those who did not.
Read the full press release package here (PDF)»

Right to Die: Is it too easy to remove life support? Congressional Quarterly Researcher, May 13, 2005
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Conservative Critique of Intervention, Daniel E. Lee, Hastings Center Report.
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Professional Organizations’ Position Statements on Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Case for Studied Neutrality, Timothy E. Quill and Christine K. Cassel
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Promoting Good Pain Management in California, Kathryn Tucker, California Health Law News, Summer 2004.
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Report to Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell from the Committees on the Attorney Generals Initiative on End of Life Care, 2004.
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The Oregon Law

Editorials

My Near Death Panel Experience, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, OpEd Contributor, New York Times
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Dear Abby Column Prompts Over 25,000 Advance Directive Requests
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Bogus Federalism, Bruce Fein, Washington Times, 06/01/2004
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Choosing Death — Compassion in Dying in Oregon, Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, 7/14/2004
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Oregon's Vital Experiment, The Boston Globe, 4/26/2004
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Affinity Organizations

An open letter from Professor Daniel Maguire to the Catholic Legislators in California
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Excerpts from Briefs of Respondents and Amici Supporting Respondents
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Read the briefs of amicus curiae in Gonzales v. Oregon et al.
Go to briefs in Document Database»

A Bishop Speaks: John Shelby Spong, “Assisted Suicide: A Christian Choice and a New Freedom”
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Visit PhysicianAidinDying.com, a new website addressed to the religious community advocating the legalization of physician Aid in Dying in limited circumstances with strict safeguards
Visit the Web site»

Unitarian Universalist Association 1988 General Resolution
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Polling

Field Poll, March 15, 2006
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Pew Research Poll, January 5, 2006
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Harris Interactive Poll, April 28, 2005
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