Patient Choices at End of Life

About the Organization

Patient Choices at End of Life – Vermont is a local, state-wide organization active in promoting better end-of-life care as desired by a majority of Vermonters.

Its mission and directors are a blend of two prior organizations: Death With Dignity Vermont and End-of-Life Choices Vermont.

Patient Choices is an advocacy organization that seeks to educate
Vermonters about end-of-life options and to influence policy,
regulations and practice that affect the terminally ill. It works to expand the range of choices available to Vermonters at the ends of their lives to include patient-directed dying, as well as better palliative care and more hospice services.

Board of Directors
Monica Knorr, President

Ann Arms

David Babbott, M.D.
Diana Barnard, M.D.
Alice Z. Berninghausen

Fred Crowley, M.D.
John W. Hennessey, Jr.
Jim Newell

Robert Ullrich, Ph. D.
H. Carmer Van Buren, M.D.
Dick Walters

Advisory Committee

Franklin and Polly Billings

Robert Gannett

Philip H. Hoff

Rev. Gary Kowalski

Madeleine M. Kunin

Herbert Ogden

Malcolm Severance

Theodore Shattuck, M.D.

Barbara Snelling
Sidney Wanzer, M.D.

Patient Choices at End of Life – Vermont
formerly Death with Dignity Vermont and End-of-Life Choices Vermont
P.O. Box 1158
Manchester, VT 05254-1158
802-362-2359
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