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.
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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.
Note: We are not a general legal services provider. We focus on legal issues specifically related to end-of-life care and patient autonomy.
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.
We’re protecting and expanding access to existing end-of-life options and rights. (VSED, treatment withdrawal, pain management).
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.
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.
By Corinne Carey, New York Campaign Senior Director A June 14 column by Ross Douthat in The New York Times, “Why the Euthanasia Slope Is Slippery,” is built on a mistaken idea. Because it gathered a fair amount of attention, I want to explain why his argument just doesn’t hold up. Douthat argued that “you…
With most state legislative sessions done for the year, Compassion & Choices’ National Center for Medical Aid in Dying is celebrating our wins and taking stock of ongoing campaigns.
Thanks to my parents’ careful planning, we didn’t have to make any last-minute decisions that could have turned into disagreements about Mom’s care.
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