{"id":3721,"date":"2023-10-04T19:47:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/?page_id=3721"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T15:20:47","slug":"resources-organizations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/resources-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources-Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Compassion & Choices<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 A leading nonprofit committed to helping people have the best death possible.\u00a0\u00a0Free counseling, planning, referrals, guidance.\u00a0No Forms. \u00a0Also active in many states lobbying for better end-of-life laws.<\/p>

American Bar Association\/Commission on Law and Aging<\/strong>.<\/a> \u00a0The\u00a0American Bar Association\u2019s Commission on Law and Aging has an excellent advance directive form that is usable in most states. Remember, when executing (making legal) an advance directive your state\u2019s rules must be followed. See\u00a0Finalization<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>

The\u00a0ABA\u00a0has a special page for agents\/proxies: \u00a0Making Medical Decisions for Someone Else \u2013 A How-to Guide<\/a>:<\/p>

Coalition for Compassionate Care of California<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 \u00a0Good information, a workbook, and several advance directive forms, including a simple one.<\/p>

Center for Practical Bioethics<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 \u00a0A very good workbook with a particularly enlightening page on Eating and Drinking including alerts about artificial feeding and IV (intravenous) fluids.\u00a0 Advance health care directive form included.<\/p>

End of Life Choices California\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 Volunteers help with advance care planning discussions as well as navigating California\u2019s End of Life Option Act.<\/p>

American Clinician\u2019s Academy on Medical Aid in Dying<\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0Acts as broker for finding participating doctors for California\u2019s End of Life Option Act.<\/p>

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 \u00a0Its focus is hospice care \u2013 improving care at the end of life.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0Caring Connections<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0website contains advance directives for each state.<\/p>

Final Exit Network<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Core mission is to provide information, education, and emotional support and comfort to competent adults in their own self deliverance from intolerable suffering.\u00a0\u00a0 It does not provide means to end one\u2019s life, nor actively assist in a person\u2019s death. Their attorney is willing to bring legal actions against those who will not honor their Supplemental Advance Directive for Dementia Care.<\/p>

Exit International\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>is unique in the right to die movement in that the organization sees a \u2018good death\u2019 as a fundamental human right, rather than a medical privilege reserved only for the terminally ill.\u00a0\u00a0Subscribers to the \u201cPeaceful Pill<\/i> Handbook<\/i>\u201d can access unique online conversations on end of life (EOL) issues. Exit International gives information on inert gases and particularly on acquiring, assembling and using equipment for nitrogen inhalation.<\/p>

Hemlock Society of San Diego<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Free educational public meetings are held each\u00a0 month and are open to the public.\u00a0 Sign up here https:\/\/HemlockSocietySanDiego.org<\/a> to be notified of events.<\/p>

Caring Advocates<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>Dr. Stanley Terman\u2019s website.\u00a0 He has two books listed in the Books & Articles\u00a0\u00a0resource page.<\/p>

Bill Simmons does not endorse or warrant the efficacy of the forms contained in some of the sources listed above.\u00a0 They\u00a0present various\u00a0points of view.\u00a0 Some of these resources are also\u00a0intentionally\u00a0mentioned in\u00a0Organizations<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Books & Articles<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ORGANIZATIONS Compassion & Choices\u00a0\u2013 A leading nonprofit committed to helping people have the best death possible.\u00a0\u00a0Free counseling, planning, referrals, guidance.\u00a0No Forms. \u00a0Also active in many states lobbying for better end-of-life laws. American Bar Association\/Commission on Law and Aging. \u00a0The\u00a0American Bar Association\u2019s Commission on Law and Aging has an excellent advance directive form that is usable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3721","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7144,"href":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3721\/revisions\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finalexodus.org\/EndOfLife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}