Working to Realize Greater Humanity at Life’s End: A Note From the CEO
June 25, 2020by Kim Callinan
As we enter the lazy days of summer, I can’t help but think it is anything but. The sight of…
As we enter the lazy days of summer, I can’t help but think it is anything but. The sight of…
Compassion & Choices CEO Kim Callinan was featured in a recent article in the online publication Seattle Post Alley. Reporter…
An excerpt from NJ.com, “There’s an urgent need for people to plan now how they want their life to end…
An excerpt from the Delaware Business Times, “Viewpoint: COVID-19 crisis demonstrates urgent need for end-of-life planning,” by Compassion & Choices…
An excerpt from the Delaware State News commentary, “End-of-life planning moves to the forefront,” by Compassion & Choices President and…
Since California’s End of Life Option Act took effect nearly four years ago, it has enabled hundreds of terminally ill…
Compassion & Choices praised congressional leaders for including five provisions it and other healthcare advocacy groups recommended to expand patient…
Compassion & Choices President/CEO Kim Callinan writes in the Daily Record, “Every year since the Maryland End of Life Option…
Compassion & Choices Maryland y más de 100 de sus voluntarios, hicieron un llamado hoy a los legisladores estatales para…
Compassion & Choices Maryland and 150 of its volunteers urged state lawmakers to honor the deaths last year of three…
Kim Callinan and Dan Diaz November 1, 2019 On Oct. 6, 2014, Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill, 29-year-old California woman,…
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…