Public Project
Compassion and Choices
Compassion & Choices is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered out of Portland, Oregon that deals with end of life issues, rights and advocacy. One of their campaigns featured the high profile case of Barbara Mancini, a registered Pennsylvania nurse who compassionately helped her own terminally ill father pass on at the age of 93. She was prosecuted and eventually acquitted with the aid of Compassion & Choices' ability to galvanize nationwide support and attention to the case. The issue of having the right to assist others in terminally ill situations take their own life with Barbara Mancini was featured on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper.
Compassion & Choices brought me in to photograph Barbara for part of their campaign, alongside a filming of her testimony of the events surrounding her actions, and her support for advocating for end of life rights to the terminally ill.
For more about Compassion & Choices and their support and mission, please go to their website at https://compassionandchoices.org/.
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