All the News from Ohio End of Life Options


  • Wills & End of Life Planning Documents
    Wills and other End-of-Life Planning Documents: Help minimize the chaos at the end of your life and make sure to document your wishes.
  • Oregon & Vermont: How to Access Medical Aid in Dying
    Join us for an interactive discussion on the pros, cons and challenges of traveling at the end of life to access Medical Aid in Dying. Two states in the U.S. do not have residency requirements to access their assisted dying laws. But what is really involved in traveling to use this end-of-life option? 
  • Executive Director, Vigil Schattinger, featured in ANA-Ohio News Journal
    From a Family Member to Activist: A Different Nursing Role – End of Life Advocacy, June 13, 2024
  • Voices Across Ohio Photo Campaign
    Come out and show your support for a Medical Aid in Dying law in Ohio. Stop by one of our Voices Across Ohio photo sessions. Learn more here.
  • Molly McMahon Graziano is featured on Heart Mojo podcast.
    May 20, 2024 Catch Molly McMahon Graziano's great conversation about the importance of access to quality end of life care and why she works as an advocate for a Medical Aid in Dying law for the terminally ill in Ohio.
  • Dr. Donald Moore, End of Life Options Learning Series
    Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 6:30pm via Zoom The Physician Experience with End-of-Life Healthcare California passed its End of Life Options Act in 2016. This law allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults the option to request and receive medication that they can choose to take to die peacefully in their sleep. Dr. Moore will give us a behind-the-scenes look at how assisted dying works in a state with the law.

 

Jack Has a Plan

October 7 and 9, 2022. Meet director Bradley Berman after watching Jack Has a Plan. Ohio End of Life Options is the Community Partner at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival and at Mariemont Theatre in Cincinnati in October.

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Executive Director Invited to Speak at National Oncology Nursing Society Congress

In April, Lisa Vigil Schattinger and her mother, Janet Rowe spoke about Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill at the invitation of the Oncology Nursing Society at its annual convention in Anaheim, California. The room was packed for the two-hour session. One of the interviews Lisa gave after the meeting became one of the most popular posts for June on OngologyNursingNews.com.

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Kentucky Doctors Voice Support

Doctors who specialize in geriatric medicine say they’re seeing Kentuckians with advanced cancer and other serious illnesses travel out of state to end their lives on their own terms. It may mean going to Oregon, which as of [4/1/2022] will no longer require a person to establish residency to be eligible for medical aid in dying.

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Letter to the Editor by Executive Director

Consider U.S. Laws before Canada’s:
Our executive director, Lisa Vigil Schattinger read a piece in the Cleveland Plain Dealer last week and knew immediately that she needed to respond. Her Letter to the Editor was published on Cleveland.com and in the digital/print edition on November 27, 2021.

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We are looking for a self-motivated part-time (10-15 hours/week) Administrative Assistant to perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks. Duties of the Administrative Assistant include providing support to our executive director, board of directors, and contractor staff, assisting in office needs, and managing our company’s general administrative activities with an emphasis on database management.

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Board Chair Responds: Ohio needs a Medical Aid in Dying law

George Will, a Washington Post columnist, is a conservative. But that is not in conflict with his belief that terminally ill people should be able to end their lives using prescription medications. Will made his position clear in two recent pieces published in The Plain Dealer

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