URGENT: Help Us Protect Compassionate End-of-Life Care in Oregon! 

The Oregon Association for Home Care OPPOSES SB 1003, and we need your voice to make a difference. This bill threatens to erode public trust in hospice and disrupt the delicate balance of neutral, patient-centered end-of-life care.

Hospice is not about hastening death — it’s about affirming life.
SB 1003 would mandate that hospice providers proactively inform every patient about participation in the Death with Dignity Act — regardless of individual need or desire. This undermines the core values of hospice care: dignity, comfort, and support.

Why it matters:
  • It perpetuates the harmful myth that hospice hastens death.
  • It could lead the public to falsely associate hospice with Death with Dignity.
  • It risks driving patients and families away from the compassionate, holistic support they need at life’s end.
  • It threatens bereavement care and the emotional safety of families during a deeply vulnerable time.
ACT NOW: Tell lawmakers to vote NO on SB 1003.

Submit your testimony here by June 2 at 1:00 PM:
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/SRULES/SB/1003/2025-06-02-13-00?area=Measures

Let’s protect trust, dignity, and choice in Oregon's end-of-life care.