March 3, 2024 – Is your advance directive enough to protect your wishes if you get dementia? Get your end-of-life planning documents in order with help from attorney and expert Bill Simmons of FinalExodus.org. This webinar from Hemlock Society of San Diego covers the basics of advance directives, including how they work and how to choose the right form for you.
Next, Bill Simmons gets into the details of how to prepare an advance directive that will protect you if you get dementia. He goes step-by-step showing the language to include so that your agent or healthcare proxy can help you stop eating or drinking and prevent unwanted medical intervention.
Watch until the end of the video to hear answers to commonly asked questions about advance directives and dementia so you will be prepared with the knowledge to get your end of life plans and legal documents in order.
August 23, 2026.
Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) is a legal choice to end hopeless suffering by hastening death. More people are considering this end-of-life option, but few truly understand it. A daughter, a doctor, and a death doula explain the medical, practical, and emotional support that can help ensure a peaceful and dignified end-of-life experience.
June 14, 2026
What do you do when the law won’t allow the kind of death you want? For a growing number of Americans, the answer is: go to Switzerland. This program brings together perspectives rarely heard side by side:
A wife’s story – Pat Spears shares her deeply personal journey and the decisions she and her husband, Bert – facing Alzheimer’s – made to travel to Switzerland.
A practical roadmap – John Watson, the mastermind behind The Switzerland Alternative, introduces a trusted resource for navigating end-of-life options in Switzerland.
Inside perspective – Experts from Pegasos explain the process, requirements, and realities of Voluntary Assisted Death in Switzerland
Whether you are planning ahead or simply want to understand what options exist beyond U.S. borders, this program offers insight you won’t find in the headlines.
On May 22, 2026, Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, was the guest speaker for the Girsh endowed lecture on Medical Aid in Dying to the UCSD School of Medicine. The lecture begins at 11:05. Professor Pope reviewed the evolution of the California End of Life Option Act over its first decade, then discussed how medical aid in dying is likely to evolve over the next five years, including: (1) by expanding access to people with dementia, (2) by changing eligibility requirements, and (3) by amending safeguards to be more evidence based.
4/30/2026 From Dorset, England, Sean Davison, Ph.D. (microbiology)., discusses the legal challenges he has faced, including arrests and sentencing for assisting people in their efforts to die with dignity on their own terms. He also briefly discusses Voluntary Assisted Dying via Swiss clinics. Sean served for 5 years as the head of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, worked with Pegasos Swiss Clinic, and is the author of 3 books.