Compassion & Choices of Oregon can help you. We have a Client Support Team of staff and trained volunteers who serve individuals, families, and others who face the end of life. These services include:
- Support and counsel focusing primarily on persons with a terminal illness and their families on a range of end-of-life issues, including hastening imminent death.
- Local referrals to pain specialists, hospice programs, social service agencies, and disease-specific support groups.
- Assistance to complete advance directives and to talk to families, friends and health care providers about your health care wishes.
- Advocacy for persons who are receiving inadequate care.
Our staff and trained volunteers help clients either in their community or by phone as appropriate. Most of all, our Client Support Team offers a chance for those facing a terminal illness and their loved ones to talk openly about their concerns and options.
If you desire to use Oregon’s aid-in-dying law and are eligible, we will guide you and your family through the process. However, we neither provide nor administer the means for aid in dying.
Before asking Compassion & Choices of Oregon for help, you should ask your current physician if he or she will support your choice to use the law. It is very important that this conversation occur in person. The following documents may help you to prepare for, or assist with, the conversation:
Overview of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act for Patients (PDF)
Talking with Your Doctor About Aid In Dying – (PDF)
Talking With Your Doctor About Dying – (PDF)
Letter for your Physician about Beliefs and Goals on End-of-Life Care – (PDF)
Download these other useful documents
Alternatives to the Death With Dignity Act – (PDF)
Talking to Your Family About Dying – (PDF)
The Importance of Hospice – (PDF)
Need to find a hospice provider? Find one in the State of Oregon Hospice Registry.
