Hospices in the USA

Ron Panzer, President of the Hospice Patients Alliance. USA, reports that a notice from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organisation (NHPCO), the largest hospice industry lobbying group in the nation, confirms that all rights to Last Acts Partnership (formerly Partnership for Caring) were obtained and are now controlled by NHPCO. Partnership for Caring had previously merged with Choice in Dying (formerly the Euthanasia Society of America). "So, the NHPCO, the organisation looked to as representing the hospice industry nationwide has absorbed and never repudiated the agenda of the former Euthanasia Society of America."

Britain's own Voluntary Euthanasia has decided to give itself a new name, too. (VE News, Summer 2005). "Caring" seems likely to come into it somewhere.