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By Peter M. Patricelli M.D. March 2012 in Of Interest, monthly publication from the Lane County Medical Society DOWNLOAD – this essay for printing. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), the first in the nation, was finally implemented in … Continue reading →

Please join Compassion & Choices of Oregon and its Board for a special screening of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning documentary ‘How To Die in Oregon‘ at the Northwest Film Center. We hope to see you there to celebrate … Continue reading →

CCO’s Annual Luncheon on October 25th was our biggest annual event to date, with over 320 attendees! The preliminary fundraising report is that the event brought in over $54,000 at the lunch and another $10,000 in pledges, significantly more than … Continue reading →

Oregon Attorney General John Kroger will be the keynote speaker at the 16th Annual Compassion & Choices of Oregon Lunch. We expect over 400 attendees this year, making it the largest event in the United States Death with Dignity movement. … Continue reading →

By Harris Meyer, July 8, 2011 – Published at Crosscut.com Meeting in Bellevue, the bishops take a firmer line on physician-assisted aid-in-dying laws and make allegations about abuses that are not supported by the experience in Oregon and Washington. The … Continue reading →

SEATTLE, June 15, 2011 – Compassion & Choices, the nation’s largest nonprofit organization advocating for end-of-life care and choice, joined by a Washington physician with ALS, a Catholic widower of a dying patient who used Washington’s Death With Dignity Act, … Continue reading →

Jack Kervorkian died in a Michigan Hospital on June 3, 2011. The following is response from around Oregon. Eugene Register Guard – editorial, ‘Dr. Death’s’ dark legacy – Kevorkian served his cause poorly. With his knack for self-promotion and his … Continue reading →

Plan to attend the Compassion & Choices of Oregon Memorial Day Concert with Michael Allen Harrison at the Old Church in downtown Portland, May 30 at 5 PM, 1422 S.W. 11th Avenue. Michael Allen Harrison delivers music to the heart. … Continue reading →

From The Oregonian, April 20, 2011 End-of-life quality among people who received lethal prescriptions under Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act is comparable and perhaps better in some ways than people dying conventionally, a survey of family members suggests. Researchers asked … Continue reading →