Aid-in-dying advocacy group girds for battles after California victory (KHI -...
(Source: KHI - Kansas Health Institute) Fresh off a political triumph in California, the nation's chief advocacy group for physician-assisted suicide laws is mobilizing for many more battles on behalf...
View ArticleNew York Campaign Takes Off (Compassion & Choices)
(Source: Compassion & Choices) Compassion & Choices has long had a robust presence in New York. But in the year since launching our campaign to authorize aid in dying in the state, we've made...
View ArticleC&C Holds Federal Policy Briefing on Capitol Hill (Compassion & Choices)
(Source: Compassion & Choices) Compassion & Choices held a packed briefing on Capitol Hill October 29, where we introduced our new federal policy agenda and discussed recent state-level work....
View ArticleCompassion & Choices’ Capitol Hill Briefing (Compassion & Choices)
(Source: Compassion & Choices) By Khalid Pagan C&C's Chief Program Officer Kim Callinan At our federal briefing last week, Compassion & Choices staff presented our federal policy agenda and...
View ArticleMassachusetts Debates Medical Aid in Dying (Compassion & Choices)
(Source: Compassion & Choices) 'Each of us should have the option of deciding how our final days will be.'- Dan Diaz Just a few weeks after the anniversary of Brittany Maynard's first video, Dan...
View ArticleSupporter Spotlight: Dr. Peter Rasmussen, 1945 – 2015 (Compassion & Choices)
(Source: Compassion & Choices) photo: Danielle Peterson / StatesmanJournal.com Dr. Peter Rasmussen, a retired oncologist and pioneer of the death-with-dignity movement, died at his home in Salem,...
View ArticleIt’s a Countdown! Three Weeks to #GivingTuesday (Citizens Utility Board of...
(Source: Citizens Utility Board of Oregon) CUB is excited to be counting down to December 1, 2015. Why, do you ask? Because we are joining #OregoniansGive with more than 500 other nonprofits around the...
View ArticleHow to Give Genuine Thanks at Thanksgiving Dinner
By Kira Newman "What are you grateful for?" For the shy adult or the grumpy teen, expressing gratitude around the Thanksgiving table can seem awkward and trite. Yet it's basically compulsory -- saying...
View ArticleBeing Thankful In The Wake Of Tragedy
4:38 AM ET Commentary Tania Lombrozo i iStockphoto iStockphoto On Thursday, American families across the country will participate in a yearly ritual around the Thanksgiving table: expressing their...
View ArticleThe Shadow Side of Being Thankful
In these November days, we are hearing a cornucopia of encouragement to be thankful. Even as the marketplace rushes us from trick or treating to tinsel and wrapping, the wisest among us will stop for a...
View ArticleMaking Every Day Thanksgiving
It is hard to be thankful when you are not living your truth. It has taking me a long time to figure this out... and then some more time to do something about it. Being grateful; living in gratitude;...
View ArticleTerminal 2 Celebrates 5th Birthday (Dublin Airport Authority plc)
(Source: Dublin Airport Authority plc) Terminal 2 Celebrates 5th Birthday November 19 2015 Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 celebrates its 5th birthday today, November 19. Terminal 2 has welcomed 46 million...
View ArticleGratitude Is Good For The Soul And It Helps The Heart, Too
3:55 AM ET Patti Neighmond Twitter i Todd Davidson/Illustration Works/Corbis Todd Davidson/Illustration Works/Corbis As we launch into Thanksgiving week, consider this: Research shows that feeling...
View ArticleOpting in to more saving
About 3.8 million people in Pennsylvania and New Jersey work for companies that offer no retirement benefits, not even unmatched 401(k)-style plans. As a result, many could retire from low-pay jobs...
View ArticleThe Unique Way I Chose to Honor My Breasts Before My Double Mastectomy
Editor's note: Some images below may be considered NSFW to some readers. Removal of any body part for whatever reason is never an easy situation.�For many of us, we were born with 10 fingers, 10 toes,...
View ArticleGratitude Can Transform Your Life. Here's How.
There are moments in life when gratitude sneaks up on us. You step out of the freezing winter cold and into a warm cafe. Your phone buzzes, and you see a text from your daughter saying her plane has...
View ArticleHonoring Manmeet Bhullar on Guru Nanak's Birthday
ik onkar sat naam karta purakh nirbhau nirvair akaal moorat ajooni saibhan gurparsad jap aad sach jugaad sach hai bhi sach nanak hosi bhi sach -- first verse in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the most...
View ArticleHow to find real gratitude
What to do? I asked myself this as I trudged along the rocky shore of Puget Sound a couple days ago, taking my daily break from work. Well, almost my daily break. Oh,hell, okay ... my "almost never...
View Article'Seinfeld' cast records birthday wishes for dying fan
(CNN)Seinfeld character Elaine Benes once told pal Jerry Seinfeld, "Ugh, I hate people.""Yeah, they're the worst," Seinfeld shot back. But the cast of the hit 1990s sitcom -- including Julia...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: The discipline of gratitude
WASHINGTON — Thanksgiving is about gratitude, which is a disposition, a virtue and a way of thinking all at once. We often trivialize gratitude as little more than a passing feeling that gets expressed...
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