The Washington, D.C., Death With Dignity Act went into effect on June 6, 2017, authorizing the compassionate option of medical aid in dying for terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their life peacefully. Through our access campaign, Compassion & Choices continues to educate health care providers and residents of Washington, D.C., about medical aid in dying and the full breadth of end-of-life options.
We created a series of PSAs with Diane Rehm and Dr. Omega Silva to explain D.C.’s medical aid-in-dying law.
End-of-life care advocates are cautiously relieved that the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a federal spending bill Thursday with an unprecedented policy rider to repeal the D.C. Death with Dignity Act and prohibit the D.C. Council from ever re-passing a medical aid-in-dying law. The rider was attached to the 2024 Financial Services and Government and General Government appropriations legislation…
La viuda de la primera persona conocida en utilizar la Ley de Muerte con Dignidad de D.C. criticó duramente al Comité de Asignaciones de la Cámara de Representantes por aprobar el jueves un proyecto de ley de gastos del Distrito de Columbia (D.C.) que incluye una cláusula adicional no relacionada para derogar esta ley que brinda…
“The House appropriations bill’s rider released today to repeal the D.C. Death with Dignity Act and to prevent the D.C. Council from repassing it in the future is cruel and unusual punishment for terminally ill D.C. residents who will suffer needlessly if this bill becomes law,” said Donna Smith, D.C. campaign director for Compassion & Choices. “This is congressional…
The widow of the first-known person to use the D.C. Death with Dignity Act sharply criticized the House Appropriations Committee for passing a D.C. spending bill Thursday with an unrelated policy rider to repeal this law that gives terminally ill D.C. residents the option of medical aid in dying (see page 6 of bill summary). The rider also…
Compassion & Choices criticized a House Appropriations subcommittee for passing a D.C. spending bill Thursday with an unrelated policy rider that would repeal the D.C. Death with Dignity Act and prevent the D.C. Council from passing it again in the future. The Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government approved the spending bill with the…
Grupo Nacional de Defensa de Cuidados de Salud para el Fin de Vida, Agrega Nuevos Miembros de Missouri, Distrito de Columbia y Georgia, a la Mesa Directiva de la Organización. (Washington D.C. – 6 de julio del 2022) Compassion & Choices, el grupo de defensa de cuidados de salud para el fin de vida más grande…
Nuevo Grupo Servirá Como Un Recurso para Otros Católicos en Determinar Cómo su Fe les da a Conocer Puntos de Vista Sobre la Planificación y las Opciones de Cuidados de Salud Para el Fin de Vida Compassion & Choices, la organización sin fines de lucro más antigua, más grande y más activa que trabaja para ampliar…
New group will serve as a resource to other Catholics in determining how their faith informs views on end-of-life planning and options WASHINGTON, D.C. – Compassion & Choices, the oldest, largest, and most active nonprofit working to expand and improve healthcare options at the end of life, today announced the creation of Catholics for Compassion, a group…
Compassion & Choices mourns the death on April 2, 2020, of Dr. Omega Silva, a retired Washington, D.C., physician who lived with three cancer diagnoses. She taught and practiced medicine for over 50 years in Washington DC and vicinity, she served as the first female president of the Howard University Medical Alumni Association and was…
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