HB 1141: Increasing access to Death with Dignity act to reduce Washingtonian’s needless suffering at the end of their life. After 12 years of experience supporting individuals accessing the Death with Dignity law, it is clear that some of the protections in the bill...
Policy Statement The medical community has made great progress in developing treatments to extend life. It has also created new fields of medicine devoted to treatments for the pain and suffering associated with debilitating or terminal diseases. End of Life...
Updated resource: Preparation and Choice in the time of COVID-19 Since early April, most of the emails welcoming me to End of Life Washington (EOLWA) as Executive Director have almost apologetically pointed out that the COVID-19 pandemic has created a challenging time...
The longtime member of the EOLWA Board of Directors is retiring after more than 30 years devoted to Death with Dignity. By Sebastian Moraga. What began with a parental chat in Seattle became a lifetime commitment to people all over the state. Arline Hinckley,...
She Did It Her Way… By Leigh Ann Metheny Leigh Ann and her mother. Some people may question me calling it a gift, but it truly was. While nobody in my family wants to be without my mom, Pamela Dianne Jones, we also don’t want her suffering, and...
By EOLWA staff The arrival of spring and the warmer weather brought along a foursome of new faces to End of Life Washington, including a new board member and three new staff members. Dr. Sunil Aggarwal will join the End of Life Washington Board of Directors in June...
Submitted by an EOLWA volunteer ambassador To return to the Featured Articles section, please click here. Nineteen years ago, a lack of information about end-of-life choice sent my mother’s life down a tragic journey of suffering. A lack of information that...
By Sebastian Moraga In December of 2019, an 11-letter word entered our lexicon and changed the lives of millions of people forever. The coronavirus pandemic, an illness as sudden as it was complex, affected all of us in one form or another. Now that vaccines have...
By Teresa Barron EOLWA volunteer New Mexico has joined the movement toward expanding end-of-life options. With the passing of HB 47 on March 15, New Mexico removed criminal and civil liability for health care providers who help terminally ill patients end their...
A State Legislature Update by Sebastian Moraga We came so close. After passing in the House of Representatives, HB 1141, the bill that would have updated our state’s current Death With Dignity law, headed to the Senate. It died there, but not without leaving a...
A NOTE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE EDITOR, JUDY KINNEY AFTER ONE YEAR AT THE HELM OF EOLWA Do you remember what you were doing a year ago? Last May I was in my first days as End of Life Washington’s Executive Director. I had just moved back to Seattle after three...
By Sebastian Moraga To return to the Featured Articles page for the Spring 2021 E-Newsletter, click here Say it with me once: Muerte Digna, (Moo-ert-ay Deeg-nah) That’s how you pronouce “death with dignity” in Spanish. It’s pronounced a little bit different. OK,...
Through an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, End of Life Washington (EOLWA), declared its support for the application of federal Right to Try laws so that terminally ill Washingtonians can access psilocybin therapy as a...
