Planning your end-of-life journey can present some of life’s toughest decisions. In those moments, you can count on Patient Choices Vermont to offer you clarity, compassion and trusted guidance.

For more than twenty years, Patient Choices Vermont has been the steady voice ensuring that Vermonters have the information, support, and freedom to make fully informed decisions about their end-of-life care.

Years of work, organization and advocacy by PCV led to the passage of Act 39 in 2013. This law opened the door for Vermonters to thoughtfully consider medical aid in dying—always with dignity, always with choice. Since then, we have helped defend and expand this right. We successfully lobbied for legislation providing crucial improvements to the function of Act 39 and opening it to people from other states. We have provided tens of thousands of people with comprehensive answers and heartfelt guidance during a deeply vulnerable time of life.

Today, the needs are growing.
Families are reaching out to us in ever-increasing numbers. Health professionals come to us asking for training. We receive requests from all over the state for help informing local communities about medical aid in dying. With your support, we are expanding our educational programs so that no one must make important end-of-life decisions in the dark.

People are hungry for information and support.
Your donations enable our knowledgeable and compassionate staff and volunteers to meet with Vermonters across the state: in public libraries, churches, senior centers and adult learning programs. We sit down with people in their hometowns to provide information, answer questions and facilitate conversations. ​

You can also donate by mail:
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​Patient Choices Vermont
PO Box 671
Shelburne, VT 05482

​PCV is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your contributions are tax-deductible.

We are often asked how our medical aid in dying (MAID) law here in Vermont differs from the MAID laws in Canada. An article in the September issue of The Atlantic magazine entitled, “Canada is Killing Itself” spurred a great deal of debate about the practice of MAID in Canada and the US and heightened the need for accurate information about how our two countries differ in their legal and ethical approaches to this end-of-life care option. 

by Amy Bruce
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Along with the good news, we want to alert you to a recent threat to medical aid in dying and what you can do to help.

Knowledge is empowerment—especially when it comes to life’s most profound decisions. Even now, twelve years after the adoption of Act 39, many Vermonters do not know about this option or have mistaken impressions about when and how it is available. ​

​In 2016 when Act 39 was attacked by a lawsuit brought by the Christian Medical and Dental Society, Patient Choices Vermont was here to defend your rights. Today, amid the turmoil and disruption in the national and world news, and yes, the outright attacks on medical aid in dying and other rights of bodily autonomy, PCV is here boldly standing for the right to retain a measure of control toward the end of life.