End of Life Choices New York seeks a world in which all of us have the best death possible, consistent with our own wishes and values.
It is the leading organization in New York state working to improve health and end of life care and expand end-of-life options, to ensure a humane and peaceful death with dignity. With a primary focus on support for dying patients and their families, the nonprofit presses for state-of-the-art pain management, palliative care and end of life care, including hospice; promotes health care proxies and Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment; and advocates to ensure that the decisions and wishes of patients are honored at the end of life, including decisions to have treatment withheld or withdrawn, to voluntarily stop eating and drinking, to have palliative sedation and to have access to aid in dying.