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Video: “The Cheryl Hauser Effect” Film Preview and Panel, 4/18/26

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On Saturday, April 18, at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, Wendy Longacre Brown and Sarah Longacre held a panel discussion in Bellingham, WA, home to VSED Resources Northwest. Longtime VRNW board member Kate Christie, author of The VSED Handbook, participated in the panel, as did Phyllis Shacter, author of Choosing to Die, and Erin Mae Glass, attorney […]

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Article about VSED in the Salish Current

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On March 20, 2026, Northwest Washington online news organization Salish Current published “VSED awareness continues for those unable to use state’s Death with Dignity Act,” featuring interviews with VRNW co-founder Nancy Simmers and current board member Kate Christie. According to the article’s subtitle, “A legal end-of-life process, Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking, is gaining

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VSED Resources NW newsletter: The VSED Dispatch, Vol. 2, Issue 1

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VSED Resources Northwest has released the second issue of our newsletter, The VSED Dispatch, vol. 2, issue 1. This issue covers a recent organizational update, information on a new national VSED Advanced Directive, description of a new online VSED and MAiD grief group offered by Seattle-based A Sacred Passing (ASP), and other resources and information

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VSED Stories: Wendy Mitchell’s Choice

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In February 2024, after a decade-long battle with early-onset dementia, British author Wendy Mitchell chose to stop eating and drinking. She details her decision-making process in a post titled, “My final hug in a mug….” on the blog Which Me am I Today? Wendy started her blog shortly after her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s and vascular

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Reblog: Kate Christie’s blog post on the good death society blog

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VSED: The Least Bad Option By Kate ChristiePublished on The Good Death Society Blog, a project of Final Exit Network (Kate Christie is a former technical and marketing writer who now primarily writes fiction. She is author of the book, The VSED Handbook: A Practical Guide to Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking. She also works

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