Activists & Advocates
Together we can help ensure respect for individuals’ decisions and dignity at the end of their lives. Here’s how you can get help:
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Stay up-to-date on the latest developments in the Death with Dignity movement.
- Read our blog, Living with Dying, and join the community by sharing your views in the comments.
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Your financial support is key to ensuring well-crafted Death with Dignity laws for all Americans. Please make a contribution today.
Get Informed
Accurate information is critical to securing and preserving individuals’ rights at the end of their lives. You can be part of the movement by simply understanding -- and helping others understand -- the status of Death with Dignity legislation in this country.
- Learn more about the Death with Dignity Acts in Oregon and Washington.
- Learn more about efforts to pass legislation in other states.
- Questions? Find answers on our Frequently Asked Questions page. There’s also a section of our blog posts that might be helpful - Frequently Asked Questions on Living with Dying.
- Want to read more? Check out our Resources page.
Educate your Friends and Family
A key to building a future with expanded end-of-life options, like Death with Dignity Acts, is grassroots support and education efforts by everyone.
- Join us for our monthly TweetChats to discuss different aspects of Death with Dignity in a public forum.
- Talk to your friends and family about why Death with Dignity should be an option for all terminally-ill individuals.
- Tell others why your support the Death with Dignity National Center.
Be Political
The Death with Dignity National Center partners with the Death with Dignity Political Action Fund to conduct lobbying and political activities in order to achieve the enactment of Death with Dignity laws in other states. Learn more.
Defend dignity. Take action.
You are the key to ensuring well-crafted Death with Dignity laws for all Americans. With your financial and volunteer help, the Death with Dignity National Center, a 501(c)(3), non-partisan, non-profit organization, has been the leading advocate in the death with dignity movement. Member contributions helped us pass a new Death with Dignity law in Washington, defend the Oregon law, and provide education and outreach programs for the vitality of the death with dignity movement.
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About Death with Dignity
The greatest human freedom is to live, and die, according to one's own desires and beliefs. From advance directives to physician-assisted dying, death with dignity is a movement to provide options for the dying to control their own end-of-life care.
Death with Dignity National Center is the leader in this movement, successfully establishing, advancing and defending the landmark Oregon and Washington Death with Dignity Acts.
Political Action Fund
The Death with Dignity National Center partners with the Oregon Death with Dignity Political Action Fund to conduct lobbying and political activities in order to achieve the enactment of Death with Dignity laws in other states.
Learn more about the Oregon Death with Dignity Political Action Fund.
Patients & Families
The Death with Dignity National Center was formed out of a profound commitment to the idea that personal end-of-life decisions should be made solely between a patient and a physician. We are pleased to provide you with support and information as you face the difficult challenges ahead.
Research Center
We have compiled a comprehensive collection of legal briefs, journal articles, and newspaper clippings. We invite you to explore the wide array of information we have collected throughout our history.
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