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Pam Impson brings experience from a long career as an Executive Assistant at large companies. She is passionate about the work Hemlock Society of San Diego does to empower and champion people in the most vulnerable conditions to exercise their right to a chosen exit from a live of extreme physical and existential suffering.

Pam first became aware of the right to die movement in 1983 while living in Riverside, California. A young woman with cerebral palsy, Elizabeth Bouvia, checked herself into a local hospital wanting to die by VSED with medical support. The case made national headlines when the hospital won the right to hold her down and force feed her through a nasogastric tube. To Pam, it seemed morally wrong to violate Elizabeth Bouvia’s autonomy over the life of misery she no longer wanted to live.