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Compassion & Choices Launches New Group of Faithful Catholics

lukej May 2, 2022 No Comments

New group will serve as a resource to other Catholics in determining how their faith informs views on end-of-life planning and options WASHINGTON, D.C. – Compassion & Choices, the oldest, largest,…

Volunteer Spotlight: Dr. Omega Silva

lukej April 28, 2020 No Comments

Compassion & Choices mourns the death on April 2, 2020, of Dr. Omega Silva, a retired Washington, D.C., physician who lived with three cancer diagnoses. She taught and practiced medicine…

A Compassion & Choices volunteer advocate who was terminally ill with ovarian cancer, Mary Klein was the first publicly known D.C. resident to use the D.C. Death with Dignity Act. Mary died peacefully last August.

Compassion & Choices Praises D.C. Health’s Progress in Implementing Medical Aid-in-Dying Act

lukej August 2, 2019 No Comments

Compassion & Choices today praised D.C. Health for releasing two years of reports today showing it is making progress in implementing the D.C. Death with Dignity Act, despite repeated congressional…

Mary Klein

lukej January 6, 2019 No Comments

This article originally ran in the Washington Post on December 25, 2018. You can read the original here. The government form lay on the dining room table in Mary Klein’s home…

She fought cancer and Congress for D.C.’s right-to-die law. Would she be able to use it?

lukej December 25, 2018 No Comments

This article originally ran in the Washington Post on December 25, 2018. You can read the original here. The government form lay on the dining room table in Mary…

End-of-Life Group Thanks Senate for Rejecting House Rider to Repeal D.C. Death with Dignity Act

lukej August 1, 2018 No Comments

Compassion & Choices thanked the Senate for rejecting a policy rider today attached to a government funding bill approved on July 19 by the U.S. House of Representatives, which would…

Elogio a Comité de Asignaciones del Senado por Dejar Intacto el Acta de Muerte con Dignidad de D.C.

lukej July 17, 2018 No Comments

Compassion & Choices elogió al Comité de Asignaciones del Senado por aprobar el jueves en la tarde un proyecto de ley gubernamental sin una cláusula adicional aprobada por el Comité…

With D.C. and California laws in jeopardy, a fresh debate over medical aid in dying

lukej June 26, 2018 No Comments

The following article appeared in USA Today on June 25, 2018: Debbie Gatzek Kratter, a California attorney with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, wants to die on her own terms. She’s…

Alohas and goodbyes: The assisted-dying movement gathers momentum in America

lukej June 26, 2018 No Comments

The following article appeared in the Economist on April 26, 2018: THREE years ago John Radcliffe, a jovial retired lobbyist in Hawaii, was diagnosed with terminal stage four colon and…

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