We are bringing very uncomfortable — but very real — questions to the table. What would you do if the unexpected happens? What would be your end-of-life decisions?

Compassion & Choices and the estate of Sally Jordan are pleased to announce a resolution to claims against her Texas healthcare providers for allegedly violating her Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order by providing unwanted medical treatment for more than 10 days, causing her to suffer a needlessly agonizing death. “We’re happy to put the litigation…

(Austin, Tex. — June 15, 2017) Compassion & Choices, the nation’s oldest and largest organization dedicated to increasing options and improving care at the end of life, including medical aid in dying, has appointed Dr. Janet Strickland as its Action Team Leader in Texas. Medical aid in dying gives mentally capable, terminally ill individuals with…

Sally Jordan of Wylie, Texas, had an explicit living will with a “do not resuscitate” order, and made sure her family and healthcare providers were aware. Yet she suffered exactly the kind of death she did not want. Jordan was found unconscious on May 4, 2015. Paramedics took her to the hospital, which led to…

Children of a deceased woman are suing her healthcare providers for causing her to needlessly suffer “over 10 days of anguish, agony, and torment.” The suit alleges the healthcare providers ignored the dying woman’s explicit wishes to be allowed to die comfortably without painful, unwanted medical treatment, as stipulated in her advance directive they had…

Marlise Munoz is dead. She died Nov. 26, probably of a pulmonary embolus, when she was 14 weeks pregnant. But John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas refuses to turn off the machines and let the family claim the body of their beloved. This family is grieving a tragic loss. Their grief is all the…