True Compassion Advocates
True Compassion Advocates (TCA) offers education, resources, and support during aging, illness, and disability. We foster awareness about, and prevention of, suicide, assisted suicide, and elder abuse. We support safe and effective care, positive health care choices, and compassionate communities.
What's New at True Compassion Advocates - updated August 6th, 2010
- Urgent Assistance Needed! Help True Compassion Advocates stop assisted suicide from spreading to Idaho, Montana, and elsewhere. Contribute to True Compassion Advocates' vital fight against assisted suicide. Help us educate your community & oppose killing of vulnerable elderly, ill, and disabled persons.
- A new law review article has been published by attorney Margaret Dore. Please see this excellent resource on Oregon and Washington's so-called 'Death with Dignity Act's' are recipes for elder abuse.
- See our new blog entry. "The west is ablaze once again with the issue of assisted suicide. In the dog days of summer...in Montana, and now in Idaho, attempts are being made to torch protective laws which shelter vulnerable adults from elder abuse, assisted suicide and assisted homicide..."
- Check out must-see articles re an Oregon doctors' plans for opening a money-making suicide house, a Swiss suicide doctor making a cool million from assisting people to kill themselves, along with news of 500 Dutch people a year being killed without their knowledge or consent via assisted suicide/euthanasia.
Are you, or is someone you know considering assisted suicide? We hope you, or the one you're concerned about, will reconsider. Please call the suicide hotline or a mental health professional. Refer to these supportive resources: serious illness support, caregiver support, and suicide prevention assistance.Contact us for information/education/resources.
If you are seriously ill or caring for a loved one, we offer you our heartfelt concern and support. See aging with courage, health care choices, caregiver resources, and suicide prevention. Also, our free brochure, The Simple Guide for Medical Care and Decision-Making is an excellent brief overview of health care decisions, including what questions to ask and an overview of pain control, hospice care, and assisted suicide.
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Please contact us for support, solidarity, and information, or to simply to tell us about your story about aging, illness, or end of life care as it relates to suicide, assisted suicide, or elder abuse. (click here for contact information) .
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