Patient Advocacy
VSED : voluntary stopping eating and drinking
National Organizations working to expand end-of-life choices Compassion and Choices Death with Dignity Publications Samuel Harrington, MD, in Washington Post, 2018 New York Times, 2016 Washington Post, 2019 Mary Beth Bowen documented the final week of her mother Rosemary’s life in this 16-minute film Cantor, R. “Honing the Emerging Right to Stop Eating and Drinking.” […]
BJ Miller
palliative care doctor and advocate.
Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness – Joanne Lynn & Janice Lynch Schuster
LGBTQIA
https://www.sageusa.org/
Disparities in Care: race and ethnicity
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus15.pdf
Truth in Treatment
website
Compassion and Choices
Just Care
Compassion & Choices
A nonprofit organization working to improve patient rights including end-of-life choices. They provide professional consultants & volunteers, by phone or in person, to walk you through advanced directives.
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Katy Butler
Panel: Life Warriors from Cradle to Grave
Sunday, March 17th, 2019
WOW Festival NYC
5:15 PM / Soundstage
Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027
