What We Do

• Support individuals and families facing the end of life.

• Assist with all aspects of end-of-life decision making.

• Explain all options to achieve a peaceful, humane death.

• Facilitate discussions about end-of-life choices between patients, physicians, and family members.

• Advocate for effective pain and symptom management; excellent end-of-life care; and patient choice in the community, the legislature, medical institutions, and at bedsides.

• Refer to hospice providers, pain specialists, social service agencies, support groups, and bereavement care.

• Educate the public, health care professionals, lawmakers, and the media about end-of-life issues.

• Promote the use of advance directives and communication about end-of-life wishes.

• Uphold the rights of patients whose end-of-life wishes are not being honored, and the right of qualified patients to use the Washington Death with Dignity Act (DWDA).

• Provide personal presence, if requested, at the time of a DWDA death.