Your Experiences, Please

We’d like to hear about your experiences with loved ones, or yourself, trying to or using VSED (Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking) and also using the End of Life Option Act to achieve a peaceful death. I will compile them, respecting your confidentiality, and will be able to let our members know important pointers to seek or avoid. It is important that we know, with VSED for instance, if the person used hospice, a private doctor, death doulas, family members, etc., and if it was in a home, a facility, or elsewhere. Similarly with the EOLA, how did you find a doctor, was he/she present at the time, and was it a good experience? If you could send these comments to me with your phone number and email—with VSED or EOLA in the subject line—I promise that they will be useful to our membership while respecting your privacy. Don’t worry about making them polished—just the facts. I may follow up by phone. You will be doing a good deed. Email: fayeG@HemlockSocietySanDiego.org

Thank you for your support,

Faye