Overview
Location
United States, Colorado, Denver
Employees
51-200
Founded date
1993
Mentions in press and media 15
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| Dec 15, 2025 | More people are caring for dying loved ones at home. A New Orleans nonprofit is showing them how | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Halle Parker, Verite News, KFF Health News Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay still atop a folding table t... |
| May 22, 2025 | Medical aid-in-dying group sues Colorado over state law’s residency requirement | Jeff McComas, the Minnesota resident, said in the lawsuit that he still is undergoing chemotherapy and doesn’t want to die now, but wishes to have the option in the future. Minnesota doesn’t allow medical aid-in-dying. “It is important to M... |
| Aug 28, 2024 | The Crossroads of Life and Death: Medical Tourism for Assisted Dying | In the quiet corners of Vermont and Oregon, a profound shift is taking place. People are traveling across state lines, not for vacation or adventure, but for a final act of autonomy. They seek assisted dying, a choice that has become a cont... |
| Aug 23, 2024 | Health | Traveling to die: The latest form of medical tourism | At least 26 people have traveled to Vermont to die, representing nearly 25% of the reported assisted deaths in the state from May 2023 through this June, according to the Vermont Department of Health. In Oregon, 23 out-of-state residents di... |
| Apr 7, 2023 | Commentary Commentary | Guest opinion: Devin Hibbard: Our father’s empowered death | By Devin Hibbard, Ryan Hibbard and Shannon Hibbard April 7 marks two years since our father, Dr. David Hibbard, used Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act to die with dignity, on his own terms. Since his death, we’ve shared his story and recei... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | Commentary Commentary | Guest opinion: Jesse Ankerholz: Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act helps terminal patients die with dignity | By Jesse Ankerholz I have traveled thousands of miles across the U.S. sharing the story of my wife Andrea Ankerholz, who died on August 6, 2021. After exhausting all treatment options for the terminal cancer she lived with, she chose to uti... |
| Jan 31, 2018 | I’m a doctor with end-stage cancer. I support medical aid in dying | I’m a doctor with incurable stage 4 prostate cancer. When my suffering becomes intolerable, I hope my doctors will permit me the option to end it peacefully with medical aid in dying — something I have been working to get explicitly authori... |
| Feb 22, 2017 | Rethinking aid-in-dying medications | It’s the third drug mixture recommended by the doctors whose medication protocols help guide decisions for prescribers in the six U.S. states where aid-in-dying is allowed. The first Seconal alternative turned out to be too harsh, burning p... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | Medical-marijuana stores closed to the general public | Question: I know they are a long way from opening, but I am trying to get a sense of how these marijuana dispensaries will work, especially since we have so many tourists here. Will anybody be able to go in and browse? Answer: No. “Only qua... |
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FAQ about Compassion & Choices
When was Compassion & Choices founded?
Compassion & Choices was founded in 1993.
What has the press written about Compassion & Choices?
Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning Compassion & Choices, among them “More people are caring for dying loved ones at home. A New Orleans nonprofit is showing them how” (Dec 15, 2025) and “Medical aid-in-dying group sues Colorado over state law’s residency requirement” (May 22, 2025).
Is Compassion & Choices still active?
Yes, Compassion & Choices is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 23, 2026.