If we are going to continue to make progress in all of our many activities to improve end-of-life care and expand options for all of us at life’s end, we need to engage in many more efforts. We need your help to do so. Please submit potential contacts using the form below. It will be helpful.

1. We need more members and supporters. Please consider making a contribution to Compassion & Choices. Please list the names of friends or relatives, potential members or potential donors, on the form below, with your permission to use your name if we contact them. As important, we need major donors, people who might give $1,000 or $10,000 or $100,000 or more. Do you know people who you think might be interested? Let us know. Is Compassion & Choices in your will?

2. We would like to make more presentations. Twenty speaking engagements a year are not enough in NYC and the area. We should have hundreds. Please consider connections you have to religious, community, civic groups, professional organizations, businesses, colleges, and senior groups. All kinds of groups are interested in learning about our issues. Please submit potential groups for presentations using the form below.

3. What connections do you have to anyone in the media? Tell us your media contacts, using the form below. If you see a story or column on end-of-life issues, write a letter to the editor, or let us know of your interest and we can help prepare a letter for you or for us to send.

4. What connections do you have to sympathetic health care and other relevant professionals including, doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists and lawyers. We need to know who they are so we can inform them about Compassion & Choices and hopefully get to speak to the organizations they belong to. Please tell us your health care contacts, using the form below.

5. Are there meetings or conferences that you attend where we might be able to speak or provide information about Compassion & Choices? Please tell us of meeting contact people we might reach out to with your help.

6. Be a good will ambassador with your friends, neighbors, relatives and colleagues. When you are with family and friends, talk about this movement and about Compassion & Choices specifically. Tell them how important it is to have a health care proxy and that we can supply them with the necessary forms and provide guidance in completing them. Tell your loved ones we can help with pain management issues. Fifty to seventy million people have chronic pain and many of them are getting inadequate pain care. We can help get them better pain care. We can give advice on filing complaints and even lawsuits, if people have suffered unnecessarily because of serious undertreatment. We will discuss any end-of-life issues that are of concern.