• Got Your Ducks in a Row?

    Columbia Lutheran Home 4700 Phinney Ave. NE, Seattle, WA

    Advance planning workshop, will cover an array of end of life issues. RSVP to rsvp@columbialutheranhome.org.

  • NW Parkinson’s Foundation HOPE Conference

    Meydenbauer Center 11100 NE 6th Street, Bellevue, WA

    Nancy Niedzielski will be presenting about Advance Directives and End-of-Life Care for Parkinson's patients at 10:30 a.m.

  • Psychedelic Medicine: New Frontiers in Palliative Care

    William H. Gates Hall, University of Washington

    Details Exciting new research is revealing that psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and MDMA, may offer significant benefit for patients struggling at the end of life and those beset by major depressions and treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress. This conference brings together doctors, scientific researchers, attorneys and ethicists to consider the medical, legal and ethical implications of […]

    $25
  • Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) Presentation

    Greenwood Senior Center 525 N 85th St., Seattle, WA

    Voluntarily Stop Eating and Drinking (VSED) means to refuse all food and liquids, including those taken through a feeding tube, with the understanding that doing so will hasten death. Join us for a thoughtful discussion on this subject. Phyllis Shacter is an advocate for expanding end of life choices. Her book, Choosing to Die, is […]

    Free
  • End of Life Advance Planning Seminar

    South Whidbey Center 14594 SR 525, Langley, WA, United States

    Protect your right to a planned and peaceful end of life. Don’t miss this FREE seminar! Make informed plans consistent with your values. Just as we prepare for the many milestones throughout our life, it is important to plan in advance for the end of our life. Island Senior Resouces welcomes dynamic presenters Karen Griffith […]

    Free
  • “Hospice” Performance

    18th & Union Theatre 1406 18th Ave., Seattle, WA

    The New Play Hospice  Answers the Question: What’s More Important than Life and Death?  Secrets! In Hospice, playwright Elizabeth Coplan creates the story of a dying woman and her immediate family.  The play deals with end of life, death and  secrets no one should ever have to take to the grave. Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth directs.  […]

  • Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

    Anacortes Senior Activity Center 1701 22nd St., Anacortes, WA

    WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY: with Island Hospital Occupational Therapist Hilary Walker: This workshop will guide participants through completing advance health care directives from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Oct. 20, at Anacortes Senior Activity Center, 1701 22nd St., Anacortes. The class will use the End of Life Washington form. Participants will go home […]

    $15
  • Death Over Dinner

    The Lairmont Manor 405 Fieldstone Rd., Bellingham, WA, United States

    We’re hosting a dinner party you just can’t refuse. A Sacred Passing has partnered with WWU Palliative Care Institute and The End of Life Washington Organization, formerly called Compassion & Choices, to offer an evening of great food, wine, information, laughter and a little portion of death. We are bringing the best resources together for […]

    $100
  • End of Life Choices and Advance Directives Seminar

    Clallam Bay Library 16990 Highway 112, Clallam Bay, WA

    Protect your right to a planned and peaceful end of life. Don’t miss this FREE educational seminar! Make informed plans consistent with your values. Just as we prepare for the many milestones throughout our life, it is important to plan in advance for the end of our life. Dynamic presenters Karen Griffith and Judy McCay […]

    Free