End of Life – Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny
Carol Ann Wegenast and Barbara Engdahl
March 23, 2014
Carol Wegenast, a Physician’s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) trainer for the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (http://www.coalitionccc.org/)
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Barbara Engdahl from Compassion and Choices (http://www.
Humanist Community Forum (2014-03-23): End of Life – Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

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