The Completed Life Initiative, founded in 2019, was created in an effort to promote self-determination and dignity at the end-of-life. The notion of what it means to live life until its completion – hence, “Completed Life” – arose from our Founder’s desire to empower individuals to have full control over their end-of-life experience. What does it mean to live a completed life? How does one communicate their end-of-life wishes to loved ones, to ensure that it unfolds as desired? How do we empower individuals to live as fully as possible, assured that their end-of-life wishes will be respected? How do we relieve human suffering at the end-of-life while honoring personal dignity?

The most straightforward way to answer these questions led to pioneering a national advocacy and education initiative with grassroots moxie. Our purpose is to provide increased access to end-of-life care resources, expand Death with Dignity legislative action, and start a national movement prompting people to ask: “what does it mean to live a completed life?”