Programs to work with people who are considering hastening their own death are available to Americans. Compassion and Choices, through their Client Support Services, gives information about hastening death to terminally ill patients. The Final Exit Network provides trained Exit Guides to qualified patients with terminal and hopeless illnesses who wish to hasten their deaths, using non-medical methods such as helium inhalation. Both programs are based on the Caring Friends Program which was initiated in 1998 by the Hemlock Society.
