ORGANIZATION

"Compassion in Dying Federation provides national leadership for client service, legal advocacy and public education to improve pain and symptom management, increase patient empowerment and self-determination and expand end-of-life choices to include aid-in-dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.

"We work toward improved care and expanded options at life's end, with goals of comprehensive, effective comfort care for every dying person, and legal and humane aid-in-dying if suffering is unbearable and cannot be relieved." Founded in 1993.

Official Website:
http://www.compassionindying.org/

Founding Date:
1993

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Olympia Dukakis	Actor	20-Jun-1931		Tales of the City
Bruce Fein	Government	c. 1947		Former Reagan lawyer
John Shelby Spong	Religion	16-Jun-1931		Retired bishop of Newark, NJ
Studs Terkel	Author	16-May-1912	31-Oct-2008	Working

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