Lawsuit seeks damages from hospital that did not abide by advance healthcare directive
February 17, 2026
Compassion Legal is fighting to hold the healthcare providers accountable for disregarding Ms. Cooper’s explicit end-of-life instructions.
Compassion Legal is fighting to hold the healthcare providers accountable for disregarding Ms. Cooper’s explicit end-of-life instructions.
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Medical aid in dying allows eligible terminally ill adults to seek a prescription for medication they may choose to self-ingest to bring about a peaceful death if their suffering becomes too great.
By Kevin Díaz, President & CEO In 2013, one year before I started working at Compassion & Choices, Barbara Mancini made headlines. Barbara, a Pennsylvania nurse, was caring for her 93-year-old father while he was on hospice. When he asked for his legally prescribed morphine, she handed the bottle to him as usual. Instead of…
Jeremy Boal spent his career caring for people. As a palliative care physician and former chief clinical officer at Mount Sinai Health System, he watched patients suffer in ways that no medication could reach. He also spent years asking hard questions about medical aid in dying — whether it could be practiced safely, equitably, and…
Dana Milbank, a columnist for The Washington Post, recently spent an afternoon with a group of women in their late 70s and 80s who gather regularly to discuss a topic many people avoid altogether: their own mortality. The women call themselves the “RONettes,” short for “Ready or Not.” What began as neighborhood friendships has evolved…
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