Compassion & Choices Biography
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“Compassion & Choices does not support euthanasia, but does support physician aid in dying.”
Email to ProCon.org, Jan. 8, 2007
- Description:
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“Compassion & Choices is the oldest, largest and most comprehensive choice-in-dying organization in the United States. We are a nonprofit organization supported by memberships and donations.
Compassion & Choices was formed by the unification of the nation’s most prominent choice-in-dying organizations, Compassion In Dying and End-of-Life Choices.
Compassion & Choices supports, educates and advocates for choice and care at the end of life. We are committed to maximizing the options for a good death, including improved pain and palliative care, enforcement of living wills and advance directives for health care, and legalization of aid in dying.”www.compassionandchoices.org (accessed Jan. 8, 2007)
- Mission:
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“Support. Educate. Advocate. Choice & Care at the End of Life.”
www.compassionandchoices.org (accessed Jan. 8, 2007)
- Other:
- None found
- Quoted in:
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- Would Financial Motivations Encourage Insurance Companies and Health Care Providers to Promote Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide?
- Is the Opposition to Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Primarily Religious in Nature?
- Should Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Extended to People Who Are Not Terminally Ill?