End-of-Life Options: SB 128 and Beyond

This program explores decisions about end-of-life options, including discussion of patient-provider communications, advance directives, hospice, palliative care, and SB 128 (End of Life Option Act, which would allow terminally ill adults with decision-making capacity to request an aid-in-dying prescription from a physician to painlessly and peacefully shorten their dying process).
?Panelists:

Donaldo Hernandez, MD, Trustee, California Medical Association; former hospice director; PAMF hospitalist

Assembly Member Mark Stone (SB 128 co-author)

Jacie Rowe, Field Organizer, Compassion & Choices

Marlene Tumlin, Community Educator, Compassion& Choices

Moderator: Cynthia Mathews, Santa Cruz Vice Mayor

This program is presented in cooperation with the following groups:

College Democrats at UCSC
Compassion & Choices
Democratic Women’s Club of Santa Cruz County
League of Women Voters of Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County Democrats

Free and open to the public. No reservations; seats available first come, first served. Wheelchair accessible. Limited parking available in adjacent lot; additional parking available on the street. Accessible via bus: http://www.scmtd.com/en/. For more information, email [email protected] or call (502) 422-2323.