The Death with Dignity group at UUCUC has presented the 2011 Sundance Winner documentary ‘How to Die in Oregon’ on three separate occasions—at the Urbana Free Library (July 2017), the Champaign Public Library (August 2017), and at church (January 2018). These have been advertised by flyers, in the News Gazette, the radio and on Facebook.

For these three showings we had a total of 51 people who were not part of our group—many of whom were not part of the church community—attend.  The largest group came to the showing at church, for which we did more extensive outreach, including to Representative Ammons and Senator Bennett. Representative Ammons sent an intern.  Our sponsors—who have helped us to advertise the events—have been The Funeral Consumers Alliance, the Champaign County ACLU, and Final Options Illinois (FOI).

The latter is a statewide group working to pass a law to legalize aid in dying in the state of Illinois; they have paid all costs we have incurred (to purchase the documentary for public viewing, advertising, printing costs, and refreshments at events).