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Recently introduced legislation in the Senate, the so-called “Patients Rights Act” (S. 1993), should be renamed the “Patient Anguish Is Neverending…

Compassion & Choices today commended Governor Kate Brown for signing an amendment to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act that…

Opponents of medical aid in dying, an end-of-life care option that allows terminally ill adults to peacefully end their suffering,…

Kim Callinan writes in an op-ed for Newsday, “Current medical aid in dying laws protect patients. In a combined 40…

Compassion & Choices CEO Kim Callinan writes in an opinion piece for the Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, “As baby boomers age, more…

A recent survey published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that the vast majority of religious hospitals in California have non-supportive…

Compassion & Choices CEO Kim Callinan wrote an op-ed published in the Capital Gazette. She said, “While the opposition’s antics…

Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings (7th Dist./Baltimore), the first African American to be named Speaker Pro Tem in the Maryland House…

New Jerseyans with life-shortening or terminal diseases and others who watched loved ones die in agony praised the Senate Health…

This piece was originally published in Governing on November 26, 2018. While expanding and protecting health care was the number-one issue…

Compassion & Choices, a national nonprofit organization committed to improving care and expanding options for the end of life, has…

Compassion & Choices thanked the Senate for rejecting a policy rider today attached to a government funding bill approved on…

The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine released their findings from a February workshop on medical aid in dying…

The following article appeared in USA Today on June 25, 2018: Debbie Gatzek Kratter, a California attorney with Stage 4…

The following article appeared in the Economist on April 26, 2018: THREE years ago John Radcliffe, a jovial retired lobbyist…

Rapid achievement of our prior goals necessitates an accelerated revamp of Compassion & Choices’ strategic plan. Given Compassion & Choices’…

Compassion & Choices urged Congress to reject a policy rider to a government funding bill approved by a House Subcommittee…

Just this morning, a Riverside County Superior Court judge granted a motion by opponents of the California End of Life…

This piece was originally published by The Illinois Times on May 10, 2018. My grandmother, whom we called “Nana,” always…

Compassion & Choices praised Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton for her vow today to prevent congressional opponents of D.C.’s Death with…

On February 1, 2018, Kim Callinan became the CEO of Compassion & Choices, having served as our chief program officer…

The following news piece appeared on WUSA9.com on April 6, 2018: It’s been 14 months since DC passed a law…

The following news piece appeared on NBC 4 Washington on April 6, 2018: Physician-assisted death has been legal in Washington,…

The law allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live the option to request their…

Today marks the 20th anniversary of a doctor writing the first prescription medication under Oregon’s medical aid in dying law….

The following op-ed appeared in the Hill on March 20, 2018. Download this article. The recently created “Conscience and Religious…

Compassion & Choices today mourned the death of English physicist Stephen Hawking and praised him for his support of medical…

Compassion & Choices lamentó hoy la muerte del físico inglés Stephen Hawking a quien elogió por su apoyo a la…

The following op-ed appeared in the Delaware News Journal on March 15, 2018 On Saturday, I got the news that…