Legal Expert Joins Nation's Leading End-of-Life Choice Organization

WASHINGTON and CHICAGO, Sept. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- David N. Cook, a veteran attorney and supporter of the end-of-life choice movement, has joined the board of directors of the nation's leading end-of-life choice organization, Compassion & Choices.

Cook's distinguished legal career has spanned more than 40 years since he earned his JD degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1972. Most recently, he served as general counsel of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and earlier as deputy general counsel of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. Among his accomplishments at NERC was leading its efforts to secure passage of reliability standards legislation as an amendment to the Federal Power Act in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

"I know the legal challenges of implementing change in the legislative world," said Cook. "Joining the board of Compassion & Choices is a great opportunity to use my experience to help implement change in the end-of-life choice movement."

"David's expertise in guiding coalitions of diverse stakeholders to achieve common legislative and policy initiatives will be a great asset to the end-of-life choice movement," said Compassion & Choices President Barbara Coombs Lee, an attorney who was an ER and ICU nurse for 25 years. "Equally important, his extensive experience in nonprofit governance and organizational finance will help guide our organization."

Death with dignity is expressly legal in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico. Compassion & Choices currently has campaigns to bring aid in dying to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Even in states without aid-in-dying laws, there are options to ensure that no one suffers needlessly at life's end. To learn more about these options, and what is available to you where you live, call Compassion & Choices End-Of-Life Consultation program toll free at 1.800.247.7421.

Compassion & Choices is the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit organization working to improve care and expand choice at the end of life. Leading the end-of-life choice movement for more than 30 years, we support, educate and advocate. More information is available at: www.CompassionAndChoices.org.

Contact: Sean Crowley, 202-495-8520-c, [email protected]

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