Supporting End-of-Life Choices with Planned Giving—Choice at the End of Life

Choice at the end of life should be available to all. Learn about generous people who have left legacy gifts to promote choice at the end of life, and their compelling reasons for doing so. Compassion & Choices improves care, expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.

In this video, donors share why planning a gift to Compassion & Choices to support choice at the end of life is meaningful for them.

Robert C. Cheek, a Planned Giving Donor, thinks planned gifts are great way of supporting Compassion & Choices and its mission. “You can make a planned gift without taking money out of your pocket right now,” he says.

Ann Thompson Cook and David Cook are also planned giving donors. David described his elderly mother’s long and painful death in a hospital, noting it and shouldn’t have to be this way. This is where Compassion & Choices comes in. It is an organization advocating for “Care and Choice at the End of Life.”

Making a planned gift is something everyone can do.

Planned Giving Donor Jerri Lea Shaw explains her reasons: her family’s focus on aging gracefully and the ability to ensure the end of life is everything you want it to be. With the opportunity to have choices about the end of life, the family can come together to celebrate life and everything that came before.

Compassion & Choices CEO, Kim Callinan, describes her excitement when Compassion & Choices receives a planned gift. She’s proud that donors can know that their legacy will continue because Compassion & Choices will continue working until patients become the deciders in their own end of life care.

Ann Thompson Cook describes her lifetime advocating for people to be exactly who they are and to be able to make personal choices that are right for them. Having choices with end of life care is seamlessly connected to that, she believes.

David Cook explains that Compassion & Choices’ work is extremely important to expanding this conversation to everyone in our diverse society, since end of life issues affect us all.

Donors have many choices where and when to contribute. Jerri Lea Show shares how everyone in her family has made planned gifts to Compassion & Choices in their wills and trusts.

Donor Earl Taylor II then explains how his father died through a positive process, as he had choices to do so. Earl believes it’s important that others have the same choice, too.

Robert Cheek makes the final point that good people should help others to make that choice in the way they want to make it.

In conclusion, Kim Callinan invites viewers to join Earl Taylor II and her--and more than 400 Legacy Circle Members—and make a planned gift to Compassion & Choices. Doing so will help ensure the important work of Compassion & Choices will continue and flourish.

A planned gift is the gift everyone can give. Please contact Sam Young today at 303.217.2152 or plannedgiving@CompassionAndChoices.org.

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