Nancy Niedzielski played a pivotal role in the passage of Washington’s Death with Dignity Act, Initiative 1000. She joins us for this speaking tour in Vermont as we stand poised to pass our own Death with Dignity legislation. Come hear her inspiring story and get involved with the campaign.
Thanks to everyone who came to hear Nancy speak. We look forward to working with you all to pass Death with Dignity in 2012!
Thanks to the Jared Tamler Memorial Fund for supporting the tour.
More About Nancy:
Nancy Niedzielski campaigned to pass the Death With Dignity Law as a promise to her dying husband. She is a volunteer for Compassion & Choices, Death With Dignity National Center, Providence Hospice and started the first Brain Tumor Caregiver Group in Washington State. She is a contributing author for a book by the American Academy of Neurology on brain cancer. She is an Ordained Minister officiating weddings and memorials. Website: CeremonyByNancy.com
Articles and Media:
Radio Interview on KUNW 94.9 Seattle
Nancy Niedzielski & Rheba De Tornay & Dr. James Gordon
Click the title above to listen. The station’s website: www.kunw.org
A TV ad from the Washington Campaign (click to watch)
Modern Medicine: Washington ushers in era of “Death with Dignity”
Mar 20, 2009
Harris Meyer
Before he died in 2006 at age 61, Randy asked his wife to work for a Death with Dignity law in Washington. Last year, she gathered more than 1,700 signatures during the successful petition drive to put the measure on the November ballot.
“My husband wanted that decision but didn’t get it,” Nancy says. “He asked me to change the law, so that’s what I worked to do.”
Episcopal Diocese of Washington: WINDOW ON FILM: How to Die in Oregon
By Beth Lambdin June 29, 2011
After making a death-bed promise to her spouse, Nancy evolves into one of the driving forces behind the campaign in Washington to pass an act (I-1000), similar to Oregon’s.
Seattle Times: Initiative 1000 would let patients get help ending their lives
2008
Nancy Niedzielski promised her husband, before he died a difficult, painful death from brain cancer, that she would help I-1000 succeed. Randy knew “the ugliness” his dying was going to bring, she says, and desperately wanted to control how long he suffered.
USA Today: Washington weighs lethal meds for terminally ill
By Rachel La Corte, Associated Press Writer
10/11/2008
“The people who choose the law really want to live and have likely been through chemo or surgeries, and now it’s to the point where they can no longer choose life,” said Arline Hinckley, a social worker who has worked with terminally ill patients and is working with the Yes on I-1000 campaign. “I think the person who can’t choose life should have the right to chose the kind of death they want.”
Completed events (videos coming soon):
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
6:30 pm – 8 pm – Ferrisburgh Town Hall Upstairs Community Room
3279 Vt Rte 7, Ferrisburgh
(elevator available – parking at nearby Ferrisburgh Methodist Church)
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
9 am – Mark Johnson Show – WDEV – http://www.markjohnsonshow.net/
11:45 am – 1:15 pm – Pavilion Auditorium – Montpelier
Gov. Davis Ave, Montpelier
(elevator available)
6:30 pm – 8 pm – Wilder Center in Hartford
2087 Hartford Ave, Wilder
Thursday, October 6, 2011
6:30 pm – 8 pm – Danville Town Hall – 2 floor meeting room
36 Rte 2 West, Danville
(elevator available – SEATING IS LIMITED BY FIRE MARSHAL – come early to ensure you can get a seat)
