Compassion Legal

The End-of-Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices

We advocate for your right to quality care at the end of life.

Everyone deserves to face life’s final chapter with dignity, clarity and control. Compassion Legal—the End-of-Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices—is the nation’s first nonprofit law firm solely dedicated to advancing patient rights at the end of life. Whether you are navigating your own care, advocating for someone you love, or seeking to shape the future of healthcare, Compassion Legal is here to help.

We are a team of expert staff attorneys and pro bono partners who work at the intersection of law, medicine, and patient-directed care. From medical aid in dying and advance care directives to healthcare refusals and systemic accountability, we ensure that your decisions are honored and your values respected.

Choose the path that’s right for you:

For Individuals & Loved Ones

Compassion & Choices Legal Team at the Massachusetts courthouse

For Attorneys & Professionals

If you or someone you love is struggling to get the care you want and deserve, we are here to help. Call us today, or use our legal intake form.

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Note: We are not a general legal services provider. We focus on legal issues specifically related to end-of-life care and patient autonomy.

Our Promise

Your Decisions = Honored and Fulfilled
Your Options = Protected and Expanded
Your Care =Transformed and Secured

Our Work

Patient Rights & Freedoms Justice Project

We’re ensuring that fully-informed patients are the decision makers in their own end of life care; that your decisions and plans are implemented.

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End-of-Life Options Access Project

We’re protecting and expanding access to existing end of life options and rights. (VSED, treatment withdrawal, pain management).

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Healthcare Improvement & Accountability Project

We’re ensuring fully-informed, patient-directed care is the prevailing practice of end-of-life medicine and healthcare and that you have access to all end-of-life care and options through your health systems and care providers.

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Our Team

Our experienced team of litigators work closely with our pro bono counsel to enforce and expand the rights of terminally ill people. Through our work in the courts, we fight to ensure that everyone can receive high-quality end-of-life care that is in line with their values, wishes and beliefs. In every case we are involved in, Compassion & Choices’ dedicated legal team prioritizes and seeks to advance patient-directed care.

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General Mailing Address:
Compassion & Choices
8156 S Wadsworth Blvd #E-162
Littleton, CO 80128

Mail contributions directly to:
Compassion & Choices Gift Processing Center
PO Box 485
Etna, NH 03750

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