Read the full op-ed on USAToday.com. “I couldn’t take her pain away.” Those were the words of Danny King after his wife…
Read the blog in its entirety on AU.org “He shouldn’t have suffered that way at the end. He was in…
Last summer proved to be a profound inflection point for our country. The tragic and senseless deaths of Breonna Taylor,…
Read Kim’s full piece on American Society on Aging’s website. Over the past several decades we’ve made remarkable advances in…
This article originally appeared in the January 2021 National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA) newsletter. It is reprinted here with their…
January 16 marks Religious Freedom Day. While people’s spiritual beliefs take on heightened meaning at the end of their life,…
This is the second of a two-part series: Growth of Religiously-Based Healthcare Institutions. Read Part I: Why It Matters Community…
This is the first of a two-part series: Growth of Religiously-Affiliated Healthcare Institutions. Read Part II: Our Path Forward. Chris…
This is an excerpt from The Women’s Health Activist, the newsletter of the National WOmen’s Health Network. Read the full…
This is an excerpt from the June 1, 2020 edition of the India New England News. Read the full article….
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…
This is an excerpt from the March 22,2020 edition of the Washington Post. Read the full article. The March 9…
Compassion & Choices President/CEO Kim Callinan writes in the Daily Record, “Every year since the Maryland End of Life Option…
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…
Opponents of medical aid in dying, an end-of-life care option that allows terminally ill adults to peacefully end their suffering,…
Kim Callinan urges legislators to pass a medical aid-in-dying law in Minnesota in a recent op-ed for the Minnesota Post….
Kim Callinan writes an op-ed for the Tampa Bay Times explaining the detriments of a new rule issued by the…
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…
This op-ed originally appeared in McKnight’s Long Term Care News State legislators are beginning to recognize that autonomy and expanded…
This piece was originally published in Governing on November 26, 2018. While expanding and protecting health care was the number-one issue…
This piece was originally published by The Illinois Times on May 10, 2018. My grandmother, whom we called “Nana,” always…
The following op-ed appeared in the Delaware News Journal on March 15, 2018 On Saturday, I got the news that…
The following op-ed appeared in the Sacramento Bee on March 14, 2018: Lawmakers have to strike a balance between rules…
