August 2020 Newsletter

Sep 2, 2020

Note From the CEO

A Series of Bittersweet Experiences. Read More

New Jersey’s Medical Aid-in-Dying Act Celebrates Year-One Milestone

Since going into effect last August, 42 healthcare facilities across the state have adopted supportive policies. Read More

Honoring Sources of Our Strength

The movement for end-of-life options lost three stellar advocates this month: Rev. Joseph Kitchen, John Radcliffe and Michael Saum. We are saddened by their deaths, but so much stronger because of their work. Read More

The Need for Telehealth Has Never Been Greater

COVID-19 has catalyzed one of the biggest transformations of healthcare: the way doctors treat patients across the country. Read More

In the Media

A letter to the editor co-written by Compassion & Choices Doctors for Dignity Program Manager Rebecca Thoman, “AGS Survey Actually Supports Engaged Neutrality For Physician-Assisted Death,” was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Late Compassion & Choices advocate John Radcliffe’s impact as both a labor leader and lobbyist for end-of-life options are highlighted in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s “Tenacious yet empathetic, John Radcliffe was a class act who lived, and died, with dignity.”
Minnesota’s Post Bulletin ran a column about the particular importance of advance care planning for people with disabilities, “ADA protects me in life, but what about in death?”

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