Texas

Interview With Edgar Carmona, CEO of Amigos Sin Fronteras

lukej June 20, 2024 No Comments

Edgar Carmona is the CEO of Amigos Sin Fronteras, an organization based in Dallas, Texas, actively involved with the Ventanilla de Salud pilot program. Recently Compassion & Choices’ Latino Engagement…

Lou Anne Smoot

lukej April 24, 2024 No Comments

Lou Anne shared her story in April of 2024. My brothers and I were raised around a bridge table. My mother, one of those aggressive players who tended to win,…

lukej February 27, 2024 No Comments

Shelby Marcuse

lukej September 15, 2023 No Comments

Shelby shared her story in August of 2023. On January 13, 2023, I called my mom as I got ready for my baby shower. She was dressed and about to…

Cecilia Vasquez-Vigil

lukej November 13, 2020 No Comments

The following was published in Compassion & Choices’ Fall 2020 magazine (page 8). When Cecilia Vasquez-Vigil and her husband Paul took a road trip to Mount Rushmore and Las Vegas…

Compassion & Choices Announces Settlement of Lawsuit over Texas Woman’s Needlessly Agonizing Death

lukej May 22, 2019 No Comments

Compassion & Choices and the estate of Sally Jordan are pleased to announce a resolution to claims against her Texas healthcare providers for allegedly violating her Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)…

END-OF-LIFE OPTION ADVOCACY GROUP APPOINTS TEXAS LEADER

lukej June 21, 2017 No Comments

(Austin, Tex. — June 15, 2017) Compassion & Choices, the nation’s oldest and largest organization dedicated to increasing options and improving care at the end of life, including medical aid…

C&C Seeks Justice for Dying Woman’s Suffering

lukej May 26, 2017 No Comments

Sally Jordan of Wylie, Texas, had an explicit living will with a “do not resuscitate” order, and made sure her family and healthcare providers were aware. Yet she suffered exactly…

Healthcare Providers Sued for Violating Patient’s Do Not Resuscitate Order

lukej May 15, 2017 No Comments

Children of a deceased woman are suing her healthcare providers for causing her to needlessly suffer “over 10 days of anguish, agony, and torment.” The suit alleges the healthcare providers…

Texas Hospital Keeps Pregnant Body Functioning: Where Could This Lead?

lukej January 24, 2014 No Comments

Marlise Munoz is dead. She died Nov. 26, probably of a pulmonary embolus, when she was 14 weeks pregnant. But John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas refuses to turn…

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