The Washington, D.C., nurse, entrepreneur, activist and Compassion & Choices African American Leadership Council member urges others to author their own untold stories by taking charge of their end-of-life care. Read More.
Compassion & Choices National Medical Director Dr. David Grube retired at the end of 2021, leaving an immeasurable legacy of helping improve the end-of-life experience. Read more.
The popularity of our webinars on facing a dementia diagnosis and voluntarily stopping eating and drinking as well as the End of Life Symposium reveal a growing interest in end-of-life issues. Read more.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will notes Compassion & Choices’ advocacy and insistence on accurate language in the Washington Post article “Medical aid in dying should not be proscribed by society’s laws or condemned by its mores.”
The Washington Post also ran an op-ed by Campaign Director Donna Smith about the harm and inaccuracy of the term “assisted suicide.”
“When you are dying, the last thing you need is to go through bureaucratic barriers to access peace,” said supporter Amanda Villegas in a California Healthline story discussing new improvements to the End of Life Option Act that also features board member Dr. Chandana Banerjee.
