Compassion Legal is your legal partner in navigating the final stages of life—ensuring your rights are protected and your choices respected. We believe that no one should have to fight alone for the care they want, need, and deserve.
Whether you're seeking help for yourself or a loved one, we are here to support you. Our team has helped families access medical aid in dying, resolve violations of advance directives, challenge unwanted treatments, and defend personal healthcare decisions from outside interference.
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 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.
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.
At Compassion & Choices, our Policy Team isn’t just tracking research and legislation — they’re shaping the future of patient-directed care.
We look forward to Governor Hochul signing the legislation to make New York the 12th state in the US to authorize medical aid in dying.
To mark Healthcare Decisions Day, Compassion & Choices partnered with Knollwood, a nonprofit community for adults 62 and older, to host a day-long educational event about advance care planning.
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Compassion & Choices Gift Processing Center
PO Box 485
Etna, NH 03750
