The case of Brittany Lauren Maynard, an American with
terminal brain cancer who ended her own life and was one of the well-known
advocates for the legalization of assistance in dying, put a face to the fight
of
Compassion & Choices for those who have yet to hear of it.
Compassion & Choices, a non-profit organization,
advocates for and ensures access to options regarding the right to die with
dignity especially in terminal cases and progressive diseases. Basically, its
members work toward the improvement of the rights of patients to end-of-life
options, thus, allowing them the right to die according to their own terms
(i.e., the best death possible).
Today, the organization is the largest of its kind with over
25 chapters and 40,000 supporters. Your donations to the non-profit
organization will certainly be used in reducing people's suffering and in
giving them a voice at the end of their lives, even when illness or injury has
robbed them of it.