Compassion & Choices

Our Work

We envision a society that affirms life and accepts the inevitability of death, embraces expanded options for compassionate dying, and empowers everyone to choose end-of-life care that reflects their values, priorities, and beliefs.

We work across the nation in communities, state legislatures, Congress, courts and medical settings to:

• Educate the public about the importance of documenting end-of-life values and priorities and about the full range of available options.

• Empower every individual with achievable options, authoritative information and constructive advice for guiding their care and engaging with their providers.

• Advocate for expanded choices, secure and ready access to them and improved medical practice that puts patients first and values quality of life in treatment plans for terminal illness.

• Defend existing end-of-life options from efforts to restrict access.

Learn more about Our Mission, Our Work.

Resources

 Compassion & Choices offers a variety of resources to support people in accessing the type of care and support they want. 

• Help patients and their families navigate end-of-life choices with our advance care planning tools.

• Find out what’s happening with medical aid in dying legislation and its requirements in your state.

• Learn answers to the clinical, ethical, and institutional questions that arise when a patient elects to pursue Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking.

• The Dementia Values and Priorities Tool helps patients set priorities and think ahead following a dementia diagnosis.