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NEW End-of-Life Rights Information Line

60% of people would want only comfort care at the end of life but only 3% had made their wishes known in an Advance Decision.

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Compassion in Dying is a national charity that supports people at the end of life...

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NICE Quality Standard

Compassion in Dying is an endorsing organisation of NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) Quality Standards for End of Life Care for Adults.

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Advance Decisions

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(formerly living will)

New Factsheets

Compassion in Dying has a range of free factsheets on a range of topics now available to download.

Topics include - Advance Decisions, Living Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney.

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Our partner organisation Dignity in Dying campaigns to extend and defend rights at the end of life.

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News

21 Feb 2012

Blog An article in today’s Daily Mail (Give up chemo? No way. I owe it to my children to fight for every day of life), features three terminally ill people discussing their end-of-life treatment

31 Jan 2012

Compassion in Dying welcomes Council of Europe resolution Compassion in Dying, the leading provider of free Advance Decisions in the UK, has welcomed a new Council of Europe resolution entitled Protecting human rights and

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