New Stories This Week: Jordan Zweigoron and Lori Novak
December 18, 2015
This week we published two new stories, from California and Minnesota. Do you have Death with Dignity story to tell? Please share it with us. Jordan Zweigoron: Every Entrepreneur Will Want the Option Jordan Zweigoron is a…
New Stories This Week: Melissa Wood, Christina Derwey, Holly Berg, Amy Neese, and Mary Klein
December 13, 2015
This week, we published five new stories, from California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and two from Texas. Christina Derwey: I Want to Have the Choice Christina Derwey is a retired postal worker in Crescent City,…
New Stories This Week: Christopher Stookey and Deborah Flynn
December 4, 2015
Most people join our movement because of a heartbreaking personal experience. Such stories, which we receive every day, inspire us to work toward ensuring terminally-ill Americans have the freedom to decide how they die. This week, we published two new…
Why I Advocate for Death with Dignity
September 4, 2015
When I was growing up in Boone, Iowa, death and dying were a matter of fact in my family. My mother was a hospice nurse, and when we gathered around the dinner table, conversations about death were common. But I…
Sharing Death with Dignity Stories
July 1, 2015
We have long asked our constituents to tell us why they support Death with Dignity. The most common thread running through the responses is that people are in favor of Death with Dignity because of a heartbreaking…
In Memoriam: Barbara Coffin
August 15, 2014
In 2008, we worked with our local partners Compassion & Choices of Washington to pass Washington’s Death with Dignity Act through a ballot initiative. With over 58 percent of voters approving I-1000,…
You’re Not Alone in Life’s Dark Places
May 16, 2012
By Joel Merchant Our most influential teachers might be people we never meet, never sit in their class. We know them through books, oral history, stories. Yet, the same mystery of teacher-student relationship exists. As the saying goes, “when you’re…