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Thank you for visiting our Patients and Families Page. Below are links to useful resources that we hope will help you as you face the difficult challenges ahead. If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.
Oregon State Residents
Oregon State Statute
This is the actual language of the Oregon Death with Dignity Law. Here you will also find other important information about the law.
Compassion & Choices of Oregon
Compassion & Choices of Oregon provides counseling and client support services to residents of Oregon who are facing end-of-life decisions including, but not limited to, using the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
Oregon State POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Registry Information and Forms
You can find information about Oregon's statewide electronic POLST Registry and links to download POLST forms.
Washington State Residents
Washington State Death with Dignity Act
This website has links to the law, frequently asked questions, and forms for Washington State.
Washington State Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
This website has links to hospice and palliative care providers by county in Washington State.
Compassion & Choices of Washington
Compassion & Choices of Washington provides counseling and client support services to residents of Washington who are facing end-of-life decisions including, but not limited to, using the Washington Death with Dignity Act.
Everyone
Advance Directive Forms
Provided through the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Here you can find, download and print your state's advance directive forms.
POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Paradigm) Registry Information.
This website has information regarding the POLST program which addresses end-of-life care wishes.
Caring Connections
A program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) that provides free resources, information and motivation for actively learning about end-of-life care and options.
Five Wishes
Five Wishes represent the five main questions you need to consider when thinking about your end-of-life care options. Five Wishes has become America’s most popular living will because it is written in everyday language and helps start and structure important conversations about care in times of serious illness. It also meets the legal requirements in 42 states and is useful in all 50.
Palliative Doctors Website
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) created the website as part of their mission to raise awareness of the benefits of hospice and palliative medicine, and help patients and families find the care they need.
According to an article titled"Best Places to Die," in Forbes, Oregon ranks second in the U.S. The ranking is based on criteria of quality of health care, legal protections, patients receiving hospice care, and the number of people dying of cancer in their home.
Center to Advance Palliative Care
This site ranks the quality of palliative care by state.
Compassion & Choices
A not-for-profit organization providing information and support to patients, family, caregivers, and health care professionals on end-of-life choices and legal and legislative advocacy for expanded choice and improved care at the end of life.
Resources
Additional resources for those who would like to learn more.
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Defend dignity. Take action.
For more than 14 years, the Death with Dignity National Center (DDNC), a 501(c)(3), non-partisan, non-profit organization, has been the leading advocate in the death with dignity movement. Leaders in our organization originally wrote and have continued advocating for the Oregon Death with Dignity Law. DDNC has met these challenges through extensive legal defense of the Oregon law, education and outreach programs, and by developing and nurturing diverse financial resources with one goal in mind: to ensure DDNC's financial vitality and its position as a leader in the death with dignity movement.
Your donation today will enable us to continue to advocate for the right of the terminally ill to die with dignity. Please click here to give a secure, online donation. Thank you.
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Political Action Fund
The Death with Dignity National Center partners with the Oregon Death with Dignity Political Action Fund (the Fund) to conduct lobbying and political activities in order to achieve the enactment of Death with Dignity laws in other states. The partnership resulted in tremendous success with the resounding win in the 2008 Washington Death with Dignity campaign.
Learn more about the Fund's efforts to bring dignity to people around the nation.
About Death with Dignity
The greatest human freedom is to live, and die, according to one's own desires and beliefs. The most common desire among those with a terminal illness is to die with some measure of dignity. 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 (DDNC) is the leader in this movement, successfully establishing, advancing and defending the landmark Oregon Death with Dignity Act -- a national catalyst for openly discussing and actively reforming end-of-life care for those who are terminally ill.
Learn more about the National Center and our family of organizations.
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. Based on this commitment, 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.
In our Research Center you will find frequently asked questions, the history of the death with dignity movement, state monitoring statistics, and a copy of this groundbreaking statute.
