EOLWA 2021 SPRING NEWSLETTER’S FEATURED ARTICLES

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...

New faces on EOLWA staff and Board of Directors

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...

Stakes are too high to risk not being ready

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...

Vaccines are here, cases are dropping: Now what?

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...

Death With Dignity making strides in western U.S. states

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...

What difference does a year make? Let’s find out:

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...

SE HABLA ESPAÑOL: Setting a goal for EOLWA in 2021 and beyond

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,...

“He could have died so well.”

Washington State’s Death with Dignity Act provides comfort every year to dozens of patients facing a terminal illness with less than six months to live.  It reduces their fear and anxiety about dying, knowing they can end their life when the pain and suffering becomes...