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Compassion & Choices

We're an organization dedicated to improving care, expanding options and empowering everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.

Compassion & Choices

We're an organization dedicated to improving care, expanding options and empowering everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.

Learn what’s happening in your state. End-of-life planning resources
Learn what’s happening in your state. End-of-life planning resources

Celebrating Pride All Year Long: Reflections on LGBTQ+ Pride and the End-of-Life Options Movement

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Three New Members Join Board of Directors  

A distinguished board of directors brings a broad range of expertise spanning the nonprofit, for-profit and academic sectors. Through regular me...

Hawai‘i Physician Gov. Signs Law Significantly Improving Terminally Ill Patients’ Access to Medical Aid in Dying  

Updated Law Cuts Nation’s Longest Waiting Period from 20 to 5 Days, Allows Providers to Waive it if Need Be, Allows More Providers to Part...

Advocacy Groups File Brief in Arbitration and Elder Abuse Case Before California Supreme Court  

Groups assert arbitration agreements are not healthcare decisions authorized by advance directivesFour advocacy groups filed a friend-of-the-cou...

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Elaine Saunders sits in a chair with her hands folded in her lap wearing a black sweater and a black hat

Elaine S. Saunders  

Elaine S. Saunders is the Chair of the Genevieve N. Johnson Senior Day Care Center Advisory Council, based in Washington, DC. As part of its goals, the Genevieve N. Johnson Senior Day Care Center has the ultimate objective to make a joyful, improved, and quality-driven life for all of its senior citizen clients.

“Protect your legacy. Get your affairs in order. Make a plan and share it with your loved ones–I have.”

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Roger Kligler seated at a microphone

Roger Kligler, M.D.  

A long-time advocate for medical aid in dying, Roger Kligler is a retired physician in Falmouth, MA, living with prostate cancer.

“I want this option to be clearly authorized in Massachusetts in my lifetime—for me, for you, for everyone.”

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