Building, sustaining, and growing a community of affiliate organizations is integral to the Completed Life Initiative’s mission of embracing human mortality with respect and dignity. Our grassroots moxie prospers with the help of our friends at affiliate organizations. Our national advocacy and education initiative advances in pursuit of answering the question, “what does it mean to live a completed life?” Just as no person can live or die without the help and support of others within the web of human existence, so too exists our passion and commitment to connecting with and empowering other organizations to thrive. We extend an open invitation to you to join us in our mission of collaboration and become a Completed Life Affiliate Organization today.
The World Federation, founded in 1980, consists of 53 right to die organizations from 28 countries. The federation provides an international link for organizations working to secure or protect the rights of individuals to self-determination at the end of their lives
Dying With Dignity Canada is the national human-rights charity committed to improving the quality of dying, protecting end-of-life rights, and helping Canadians avoid unwanted suffering, and ensuring access to quality end-of-life choice and care through advocacy, education, and support.
MAiDHouse is a non-profit organization devoted to providing those eligible to receive medical assistance in dying (MAiD) with a supportive, inclusive and comfortable setting. MAiDHouse is a group of doctors, nurse practitioners, ethicists, advocates and volunteers who believe in choice, tranquility and dignity at the end of life for patients and their families. Those eligible to receive MAiD will be able to access the procedure with their chosen provider in a safe, reliable and comfortable space. The first MAiDHouse location is in Toronto. MAiDHouse provides information, resources and services for those eligible to receive MAiD, families and health care providers. MAiDHouse is registered as a Canada not-for-profit corporation and charity in Toronto under the name Assisted-Dying Resource Centres Canada.
The American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying grew from the remarkably successful National Clinicians Conference on Medical Aid in Dying at UC Berkeley, February 14-15, 2020. The Academy continues and extends the work of the conference, informing and educating clinicians about medical aid in dying, from clinical discussions to evidence-based knowledge, from nursing care to the work of volunteers at the bedside, from medical ethics to pharmacology, and more.
The New York Alliance for Medical Aid in Dying is a coalition combining the resources of Compassion & Choices, Death with Dignity National Center, The Completed Life Initiative, End of Life Choices New York and Death with Dignity–Albany, working together to authorize medical aid in dying in New York State.Through collaboration and coordination across the state, the alliance speaks with one voice to legislators, harnessing our combined supporters to tell policymakers that now is the time to help terminally ill New Yorkers, protect bodily autonomy, and expand end-of-life options by passing the New York Medical Aid-in-Dying Act.
Death with Dignity is a national leader in end-of-life advocacy and policy reform. Our mission focuses on improving how people with terminal illness die. Death with Dignity National Center goal is to ensure people with terminal illness can decide for themselves what a good death means in accordance with their values and beliefs, and that should include having an option for death with dignity.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Leadership Alliance is a dynamic collaboration of healthcare executives and their teams who share a goal to work with one another as well as in partnership with our patients, workforces, and communities to deliver on the full promise of the IHI Triple Aim. Alliance Members share generously with one another, confident that by collaborating and learning together, we can individually and collectively get better, faster.
End of Life Choices New York seeks to expand choice at the end of life, respecting every individual’s wishes, and striving for the best possible quality of life and a peaceful death. The issues that EOLCNY works on, and the activities in which we engage, are about quality of healthcare, health care choices, and human rights, autonomy, justice and the relief of human suffering.
Compassion and Choices is a national organization that works to expand options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey. Compassion and Choices works to educate the public about the importance of documenting end-of-life values and priorities, advocate for expanded choices, defend existing end-of-life options from efforts to restrict access, and more.
Mettle Health team comprises doctors, nurses, social workers and chaplains who have also been patients and caregivers. With more than 100 combined years of experience in clinical care, Mettle Health understands the strengths and the limitations of the healthcare system. Mettle Health can’t change your diagnosis, but can change the way you navigate it. The team at Mettle Health provides focused, clinically sensitive and holistic care where and when people need it. Services can be tailored to suit the needs of individuals, teams, or management. Mettle Health helps people handle issues ranging from the practical, to the emotional and the existential. We call it praxistential care.
Final Exit Network exists to educate qualified individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives, offer a compassionate bedside presence and defend their right to choose. They hold true that any competent person unbearably suffering an intractable medical condition has the option to die legally and peacefully.
Death with Dignity–Albany was founded in 2015 to make it easier for people to talk about end-of-life issues, to learn more about their options, and to make plans to ensure that their wishes are honored when the time comes. We believe that everyone deserves to have a dignified, peaceful death. Death with Dignity Albany is an independent, local, grassroots group whose mission is to provide a forum for education and advocacy. We are based in Albany, NY and serve the Capital Region of New York State and beyond.
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