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Compassion and Choices (C&C) is the largest of the national right to die organizations. It was created by a merger of the old Compassion in Dying and End-of-life Choices groups, the latter having been known previously as the Hemlock Society. C&C has three broad areas of function: legislative change, legal advocacy, and service to individual members. Persons in need at the end of life can get significant support and information from their counselors at a national hotline. It has the greatest depth of resources and best funding of any of the groups and is the parent organization for the local greater Boston chapter (below).
Compassion and Choices Arizona
This is one of Compassion and Choices' largest and most active chapters.
Compassion and Choices / Boston
Compassion and Choices of Greater Boston is the local chapter of C&C, and serves the six hundred members in eastern Massachusetts. Dr. Wanzer, the author, is the recent president of this group. This link will put you in touch with Boston activists in the end-of-life movement.
Death With Dignity National Center
An end-of-life advocacy organization that has been in the thick of the legal and legislative battles in the last decade, they successfully helped propose, pass, defend, and implement the Oregon law.
This organization is the largest in Canada that advocates for the rights of the terminally ill.
This group has a broad range of progressive interests, including the rights of persons at the end of life.
Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO)
Derek Humphry's site about his publications and news from all around the world concerning the end-of-life movement.
Final Exit Network is constituted by a group of former C&C members who wished to form an organization that has as its only goal service to individual members. It does not engage in legislative or legal advocacy, but does provide support to individuals in ways similar to C&C. It is accessible through a hotline described on the website.
Humanist Association of Massachusetts
The organization and its national counterpart are dedicated to the precept that we should have control over our lives, certainly including the end of life.
Patient Choices at End of Life - Vermont
Its mission and directors are a blend of two prior organizations: Death With Dignity Vermont and End-of-Life Choices Vermont. The new group is an advocacy organization that seeks to educate Vermonters about end-of-life options and to influence policy, regulations and practice that affect the terminally ill. It works to promote the best possible pain control, palliative and hospice care, and to enable terminally ill patients to choose the timing and manner of dying if even the best of care fails to prevent or alleviate unbearable suffering.
Right to Die Society of Canada
Right to Die Society of Canada lobbies legislators and educates the public on end of life subjects. They will present to persons who consult them information about a complete range of options when hastened death is being considered.
World Federation of Right to Die Societies
The umbrella organization for the various right to die societies worldwide.