Losing Forward with Dignity
July 5, 2021
In taking a step back to reflect on this legislative session, thinking about what could have gone differently and what tactics we will utilize during the next legislative sessions, Death with Dignity National’s Center’s Executive Director, Peg Sandeen,…
Good Things Take Time
June 25, 2021
As legislative sessions come to an end, some years we get to celebrate the passing of a new aid-in-dying law, and sometimes we have to grieve a bill stalling in the process. This year, we get to do both. We…
Read Death with Dignity’s Spring/Summer 2021 Newsletter
June 8, 2021
Hot off the presses: The latest edition of The Dignity Report. Read more about our recipe for success in states across the country.
Live Free AND Die — PEACEFULLY
January 27, 2021
A Plea for Passage of Death with Dignity in New Hampshire, by Peter Fernald “Live free or die.” I strongly support the first two words of our historic state motto, and at the end of this piece, I…
Call to Action: 2021
January 4, 2021
Policies don’t change because we want them to. Policies change because the voting public demands they do. The movement for death with dignity is gaining greater momentum with each passing year. At a time in our history where death and…
Her Song Lives On: Why William “Sunni” Ash Donates to Death with Dignity
August 20, 2020
William "Sunni" Ash's wife, K.C., used the Washington Death with Dignity Act to die peacefully following a terminal illness. Sunni donates to Death with Dignity in her honor.
The End of Life Options Act: A Religious Defense
December 9, 2019
Massachusetts resident Sylvia Shaw, a death with dignity advocate and devout Christian, mounts a religious defense of proposed assisted dying legislation in her state.
Brittany Maynard’s Legacy, Five Years On
November 1, 2019
Five years ago today, Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old with terminal brain cancer, used the Oregon Death with Dignity to die peacefully.
In Memoriam: Stephen Dunn
October 16, 2019
We mourn the passing of former Death with Dignity National Center Board Treasurer Stephen Dunn, who died of cancer October 16.
New Hampshire Death with Dignity Launches Advocacy Efforts at Kickoff Event in Concord
October 3, 2019
For the past year, we have been working with New Hampshire resident Bob McCown to start and grow a grassroots organization, New Hampshire Death with Dignity. The group officially launched at an event in Concord on September 27.