Compassion & Choices is the nation’s oldest, largest and most active nonprofit working to improve care and expand options for the end of life.
Dr. Haider Warraich, a physician and writer from Durham, N.C., and Dan Grossman, an entrepreneur from Washington, D.C., have joined the board of directors for Compassion & Choices. A former instructor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Warraich currently practices medicine at Duke University Medical Center, where he also is a fellow and clinical researcher in […]
Read MoreCompassion & Choices Hawai‘i today applauded the Hawai‘i State AFL-CIO for passing a resolution calling for lawmakers to enact legislation authorizing medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or fewer to live the option to request, obtain and self-ingest medication to die […]
Read MoreThe California End of Life Option Act (CA EOLOA) took effect in June 2016, allowing terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to pursue medical aid in dying as an end-of-life care option. California became the most populous and diverse state to pass a medical aid-in-dying law, and many wondered how access […]
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