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Compassion & Choices

{{Short description|U.S. nonprofit organization}}

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|headquarters = Portland, Oregon

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Compassion & Choices is a nonprofit organization in the United States working to improve patient autonomy and individual choice at the end of life, including access to medical aid in dying. Its primary function is advocating for and ensuring access to aid in dying.{{cite journal |title=Role of non-governmental organisations in physician assisted suicide |first1=Stephen J |last1=Ziegler |first2=Georg |last2=Bosshard |journal=British Medical Journal |date=10 February 2007 |volume=334 |issue=7588 |pages=295–8 |doi=10.1136/bmj.39100.417072.be|pmc=1796670 |pmid=17289733}}The organization has worked for recognition of a difference between the terms "assisted suicide" and "legal physician aid in dying" in the criminal code. For example, Oregon law draws a distinction between "suicide" and "aid in dying" for criminal purposes. ORS 127.880 §3.14 [http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jpm.2009.9599][https://web.archive.org/web/20100922060912/http://compassionandchoices.org/learn]{{cite web |title=Compassion & Choices |url=http://www.compassionandchoices.org/act/legal_work/Blick |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203058/http://www.compassionandchoices.org/act/legal_work/Blick |archive-date=2011-07-17 |access-date=2010-03-01}}{{better source needed|date=December 2021}}

History

Compassion & Choices is the successor to the Hemlock Society,{{cite web|url=http://www.compassionandchoices.org/learn/timeline?searched=Hemlock&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1|title=End of Life Planning and Paliative Care - Compassion & Choices|work=compassionandchoices.org|access-date=2009-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203145/http://www.compassionandchoices.org/learn/timeline?searched=Hemlock&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1|archive-date=2011-07-17|url-status=dead}}{{better source needed|date=December 2021}} and Compassion In Dying Federation; the organizations merged in 2007. The organization has a staff of 80 people located across the country.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

The 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize winner, How to Die in Oregon,{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/philly-nurse-exonerated-assisted-death-father/story?id=22495434 |title=Philly Nurse Exonerated in Assisted Death of Her Terminally Ill Father |first1=Susan Donaldson |last1=James |date=February 13, 2014 |work=ABC News|access-date=May 12, 2016}} documented the work of Compassion & Choices of Oregon.{{cite news|last=Barnes|first=Brook|title=Unflinching End-of-Life Moments|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/movies/25sundance.html|work=New York Times|access-date=16 April 2011|date=24 January 2011}}

See also

References

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite book |first1=George Howe |last1=Colt |title=The Enigma of Suicide |location=New York |publisher=Summit Books |year=1991 |isbn=0671509969}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Côté |first1=Richard N |title=In search of gentle death : the fight for your right to die with dignity |year=2008 |location=Mt. Pleasant, S.C. |publisher=Corinthian Books |isbn=978-1-929175-36-9 }}
  • {{cite book |first1=Donald W. |last1=Cox |title=Hemlock's Cup: The Struggle for Death With Dignity |publisher=Prometheus Books |edition=First |date=April 1, 1993 |isbn=978-0879758080 }}
  • {{cite book |first1=Ian |last1=Dowbiggin |title=A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in America |location=Oxford England; New York, New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2003 |isbn= 9780198035152}}
  • {{cite book |first1=Peter G. |last1=Filene |title=In The Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America |location=Chicago, Illinois |publisher=Ivan R. Dee |year=1998 |page=196 |isbn=1-56663-188-2 }}
  • {{cite book |first1=Henry R. |last1=Glick |title=The Right to Die: Policy Innovation and Its Consequences |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1992 |isbn=0-231-07638-X |url=https://archive.org/details/righttodiepolicy00glic }}
  • {{cite book |first1=Daniel |last1=Hillyard |first2=John |last2=Dombrink |title=Dying Right: The Death With Dignity Movement |location=New York, NY |publisher=Routledge |year=2001 |isbn=978-0415927987}}
  • [http://www.assistedsuicide.org/ Farewell to Hemlock: Killed by its name], an essay by Derek Humphry 21 February 2005
  • {{cite book |first1=Derek |last1=Humphry |author-link1=Derek Humphry |title=Good Life, Good Death - Memoir of a writer who became a euthanasia advocate |location=Junction City, Oregon |publisher=Norris Lane Press |year=2008 |isbn=9780976828334}}
  • {{cite book |first1=Constance E. |last1=Putnam |title=Hospice or Hemlock? Searching for Heroic Compassion |location=Westport, Connecticut |publisher=Praeger |year=2002 |isbn=0897899210 |url=https://archive.org/details/hospiceorhemlock00cons }}
  • {{cite book |first1=Sidney, MD |last1=Wanzer |first2=Joseph, MD |last2=Glenmullen |title=To Die Well. Your Right to Comfort, Calm and Choices in the Last Days of Your Life |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Lifelong Books/Da Capo Press, Merloyd Lawrence Books |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7382-1083-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/todiewellyourrig00sidn_0 }}

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External links

  • {{Official website|https://www.compassionandchoices.org/}}

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Category:Organizations established in 2005

Category:Non-profit organizations based in Oregon

Category:Health law in the United States

Category:Assisted suicide in the United States

Category:Euthanasia organizations