Prepare to embark on a profound theatrical journey as the Highland Center for the Arts Greensboro VT (HCA) presents the highly anticipated tour of Rob Mermin’s original play, Act 39. Following its sold-out premiere run at Goddard’s Haybarn Theater in the summer of 2023, this poignant production will grace stages in Greensboro, Burlington, and Woodstock from August 29 to September 14, 2024. https://lnkd.in/esfbfj5t
Patient Choices Vermont
Wellness and Fitness Services
Shelburne, VT 20 followers
...a non-profit organization dedicated to end-of-life choice.
About us
Patient Choices Vermont (PCV), founded in 2002, is a non-profit organization dedicated to end-of-life choice. PCV worked for more than ten years to achieve enactment of the Vermont law entitled Patient Choice at End of Life (Act 39). PCV seeks to educate Vermonters about end-of-life options and to influence policy, regulations and practice that affect the terminally ill. PCV's mission resonates with thousands of Vermonters because our cause recognizes the importance of freedom of choice near the end of life. Important liberties such as the choices Act 39 provides require continued vigilance. PCV educates new legislators and sustains its legislative watch function in order to ensure that Act 39 remains in place for the long term. PCV works to ensure that all Vermonters have knowledge and practical access to the choices the Act provides. PCV was instrumental in the establishment of the Vermont office of the national organization, Compassion & Choices, thereby providing access for Vermonters to C&C's staff of medical and patient advisory experts. PCV brings educational programs to communities. We work to forge relationships among medical and care-giving institutions, utilizing the broad expertise and institutional knowledge of our board members and advisers. PCV also works closely with the Death with Dignity National Center which provides valuable advice on policy development and implementation strategy.
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- Wellness and Fitness Services
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- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Shelburne, VT
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2002
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- healthcare, death with dignity, end of life, hospice, medical aid in dying, and Vermont Act 39
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P.O. Box 671
Shelburne, VT 05482, US
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"Along with confirming that I would have made a lousy nurse, the experience raised a nagging question that would haunt me in the following years: With no kids of my own, who will take care of me when my time comes?" https://lnkd.in/eDFShMR8
Watching My Parents Die Convinced Me To Plan A Completely Different Path — And My Idea Came From A Movie
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Lui’s twice-monthly gathering is one of several death cafes that have sprung up over the past two years in Los Angeles. https://lnkd.in/gSDiUM23
Modern death cafes are very much alive in L.A. Inside the radical movement
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"At least 26 people have traveled to Vermont to die, representing nearly 25% of the reported assisted deaths in the state from May 2023 through this June, according to the Vermont Department of Health. In Oregon, 23 out-of-state residents died using medical assistance in 2023, just over 6% of the state total, according to the Oregon Health Authority." https://lnkd.in/eqbKxfbb
Traveling To Die: The Latest Form of Medical Tourism - KFF Health News
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"Act 39," the play received rave reviews and sold out every performance. Building on this success, "Act 39" will return to the stage for performances in three Vermont locations during August and September this year. Click to get your tickets for Act 39: ibit.ly/KVBS8 Highland Center for the Arts (HCA), Main Stage in Greensboro, VT on Thursday, August 29 – Saturday, August 31 at 7PM and on Sunday, September 1 at 2PM HCA presenting at Main Street Landing in Burlington, VT on Wednesday, September 4 – Saturday, September 7 at 7PM and on Sunday, September 8 at 2PM HCA presenting at Pentangle Arts in Woodstock, VT on Thursday, September 12 – Friday, September 13 at 7PM and on Saturday, September 14 at 2PM and 7PM
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"Ten years ago, Vermont was in the throes of heated debate over the so-called “death with dignity” bill, a measure that would allow very sick Vermonters to end their own lives. Opponents called it doctor-assisted suicide and many religious groups testified against it." https://lnkd.in/e-YDrQgz
Death with Dignity: Bill Mares shares his final moments with WCAX
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"We had always known about medically assisted death from our research and thought we might need to go to Oregon or Switzerland if it got that bad. A month before that fateful scan, we learned it was legal in California, and that Kaiser Permanente had an end-of-life options program." https://lnkd.in/e5eagg5t
Opinion: California man’s medically assisted death offers lessons for everyone
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Please take a minute to write your Senators and ask them to protect D.C.’s medical aid-in-dying law in the Senate Financial Services Appropriations bill by not allowing for any dangerous riders that would repeal the legislation. https://lnkd.in/eXtzUEqc
Tell Senate Appropriators to Protect Death with Dignity in D.C.
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Last summer, Patient Choices Vermont (PCV) proudly co-sponsored the opening of a new play titled Act 39, written by Rob Mermin, founder of Circus Smirkus. Act 39 received rave reviews and sold out every performance. Building on this success, Act 39 will return to the stage for performances in three Vermont locations during August and September this year. https://lnkd.in/eZnXEVtG
Act 39 Play is Back for an Encore!
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Marjorie’s story is just one of thousands that play out around the world each year. Some form of hastened death is legal, or in the process of becoming legal, in all or portions of at least 13 countries, and under consideration in several more. https://lnkd.in/eD7UD47d
Assisted dying: first-hand accounts of what it’s like to help a loved one die
theconversation.com