Guiding Principles: We hold that mentally competent adults who suffer from a fatal or irreversible physical illness, from intractable physical pain, or from a constellation of chronic, progressive physical disabilities have a basic human right to choose to end their lives when they judge the quality of their life to be unacceptable.
This right by its nature implies that the ending of one’s life is one’s choice, including the timing and persons present, and should be free of any restrictions by the law, clergy, medical profession, and even friends and relative no matter how well-intentioned. We do not encourage anyone to end their life, are opposed to anyone’s encouraging another to end his life, do not provide the means to do so, and do not assist in a person’s death.
Mission
- To work toward obtaining the basic human right of competent adults to choose to end lives on their own terms when they suffer from irreversible physical illness, intractable pain, or constellation of chronic, progressive physical disabilities.
- To raise awareness of all American concern this basic human right.
- To offer free service to all who quality, providing relevant information, home visits if possible an da compassionate presence for individual and family.
- To promote the use of advance directives an dother related legal instruments to document the intentions of any individual.
- To sponsor research into new peaceful and reliable methods to end life.
- To vigorously defend our guiding principles in a court of law when necessary.
Mission: Grow House, Inc. provides education about life-threatening illness and end of life care. Our primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying through public education and global professional collaboration. Our search engine gives you access to the Internet’s most comprehensive collection of reviewed resources of end-of-life care.
“Dying Matters is a coalition of 30,000 members across England and Wales which aims to help people talk more openly about dying, death and bereavement, and to make plans for the end of life.
The website offers a wide range of resources to help people start conversations about dying, death and bereavement. These have been a great success: to date, we have distributed more than 750,000 different items, from DVDs, posters and leaflets through to pens, postcards and balloons. A host of different organization including hospices, hospitals, care homes, community centers, financial advisors and funeral directors have all used them to successfully raise awareness in there are.
Compassion & Choices is the leading nonprofit organization committed to helping everyone have the best death possible. We offer free consultation, planning resources, referrals and guidance, and across the nation we work to protect and expand options at the end of life.
For over thirty years we have reduced people’s suffering and given them some control in their final days – even when injury or illness takes their voice. We are experts in what it takes to die well.
Compassion & Choices works with individuals and allied organizations throughout America to:
- Make aid in dying an open, legitimate option recognized throughout the medical field and permitted in more states.
- Increase patient control and reduce unwanted interventions at the end of life.
- Pass additional laws ensuring full information and access to all end-of-life care options.
- Normalize accurate, unbiased language throughout the end-of-life choice discussion (“aid in dying” instead of “assisted suicide”).
- Establish aid in dying as a prime motivator in voter decision-making.
- Support the expansion of the end-of-life choice movement and exert a leadership role in it.
National Funeral Directors Association
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
American Psychological Association
Encyclopedia of Psychology: Death and Dying
About.com: Grief Support Groups, Resources & Information
University of Minnesota Libraries: Death and Drying Resources; Concepts, attitudes, ethics, and lifestyle management related to dying, death, grief, and bereavement. Emphasizes intervention and educational aspects for community health and helping professions and for educators.
