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1	Americans for Better Care of the Dying We can change what people face as they come to the end of life. Every dying person needs to be able to count on excellent care. Americans for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD) aims to improve end-of-life care by learning which social and political changes will lead to enduring, efficient, and effective programs. We work with the public, clinicians, policymakers, and other end-of-life organizations to make change happen.	1060
2	End of Life Choices End of Life Choices works for the freedom to choose a dignified death and for individual control concerning death. They support the right of terminally ill, mentally competent adults to hasten death under careful safeguards.	935
3	Five Wishes - Living Will Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know: - Who you want to make health care decisions for you when you can't make them. - The kind of medical treatment you want or don't want. - How comfortable you want to be. - How you want people to treat you. - What you want your loved ones to know. Five Wishes has become America’s most popular living will because it is written in everyday language and helps start and structure important conversations about care in times of serious illness.	165
4	Hospice Foundation of America HFA assists those who cope either personally or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief.	914
5	WidowNet An information and self-help resource for, and by, widows and widowers. Topics covered include grief, bereavement, recovery, and other information helpful to people, of all ages, religious backgrounds and sexual orientations, who have suffered the death of a spouse or life partner.	1087

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Note: For 21 years an annual supporting membership, including a subscription to Mainstay and other benefits was $25. Recently, the WSA Board voted to raise that cost by $5 to $30 in the U.S. and $35 elsewhere in North America. Overseas, Mainstay will only be available elecronically, in the members' area. Had we kept up to inflation the cost today would be $43.50.

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Playing the Canada Card: an American Caregiver's Experience

Playing the Canada Card:

an American Caregiver's Experience

My husband John’s disease erupted like fireworks in the afternoon of my New Year’s Eve birthday seven years ago. I went out for the afternoon and returned home to find a stranger who only looked like John, talking gibberish and tearing our house apart at the seams. The siege lasted 16 hours.I thought of survival, not of Canada. As it turned out, survival and Canada would become one and the same.

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