The Virginia Alliance Against Assisted Suicide is an association of diverse organizations, institutions, agencies and citizens in the Commonwealth of Virginia who oppose the legalization of doctor-assisted suicide.
Our Mission
Every Virginian should have access to affordable treatment, pain management and palliative care. We are committed to caring for all of our citizens and especially those who are most vulnerable.
We therefore oppose suicide in all of its forms and work to prevent the legalization of assisted suicide in the Commonwealth.
Our alliance members include representatives of the following communities: disability rights, patients’ rights, healthcare, hospice care, human rights, senior rights, veterans and various faith-based advocacy organizations.
Our Values
Every person has the right to receive healthcare and control their illness.
As citizens of the Commonwealth, we call upon our elected officials to find ways to prioritize compassionate treatment and effective pain management – but never making suicide or euthanasia an acceptable outcome.
Virginia should continue to prioritize supportive, compassionate, person-centered care rather than hasten death. We support the highest standards of palliative care as a proven way to relieve pain and provide comfort at the end of life.
Assisted suicide targets and devalues individual personhood and our values as a society, including people with disabilities, veterans, those with mental illness, the elderly, and those unable to afford healthcare.
Allowing medical professionals to enable their patients to commit suicide or intentionally end the life of the individual themselves undermines the very basis of the clinician-patient relationship and their commitment to compassionate, person-centered care.
The term “medical aid-in-dying” - used to describe the practice of prescribing lethal drugs to a patient who requests hastened death - is just a worrisome and manipulative euphemism. We use the term “assisted suicide” because that is what it is: suicide.
Become a Member of NSVA (NoSuicideVA):
To become a member, simply provide your basic information in the form below. Your completion of and submission of the form is your electronic signature and your confirmation to the Virginia Alliance Against Assisted Suicide that you affirm the mission statement on this page.
Membership provides occasional updates to legislation, resources and information, keeping you in the know about assisted suicide in the state of Virginia.
Please complete the simple form below and submit to become a member. We do not use or sell this information at any time for any purpose.
National Organizations OPPOSED to the Legalization of Assisted Suicide
National Agencies
- National Council on Disability - Established by Congress in 1978, this independent federal agency, which is bipartisan, advises federal lawmakers and the President.
Prominent National Groups
- United Spinal Association
- National Council on Independent Living
- ARC of the United States
- Patients Rights Action Fund
- Not Dead Yet
National Disability Organizations
- American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
- American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
- Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL)
- Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN)
- Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)
- Disability Rights Center (DRC)
- Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)
- Disability Section, American Public Health Association
- Institute For Patients' Rights
- National Alliance for Care at Home
- National Council on Independent Living
- World Institute on Disability (WID)
- TASH
National Medical Groups
Virginia State Organizations OPPOSED to the Legalization of Assisted Suicide
- The Virginia Alliance Against Assisted Suicide (No Suicide VA)
- Virginia Association of Centers for Independent Living (VACIL)
- American Academy of Medical Ethics – Virginia Chapter
- Exalted Warrior Foundation
- Virginia Catholic Conference
- Virginia Assembly of Independent Baptists
- Catholic Medical Association - Richmond and Arlington, VA Guilds
- National Association of Catholic Nurses – Region 3 (VA)
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