Compassion & Choices of Washington (C&C) provides advocacy, counseling, and emotional support to qualified individuals who desire a peaceful, humane death. Through education, advance planning, consultation with caregivers, case management services, and patient advocacy and empowerment, C&C upholds patients' rights to excellent end-of-life care, effective pain and symptom management, and, for terminally ill, competent adults, aid in dying to avoid intolerable suffering.