However much time you have, there's a way to help.
Five minutes or five months — pick the one that fits. Every share moves this a little further, and every state that picks it up means clergy somewhere stop paying to sit with the dying.
Sign & pass it on
Add your name to the petition and bring the sheet to your congregation. Signatures are gathered and delivered to the legislators together — you don't have to contact anyone yourself. Completed sheets go to PO Box 149, Marblehead, MA 01945, with an early-October target.
See the MA effortPut it in front of clergy
Send this site to a hospital chaplain, a spiritual-care office, a pastor, rabbi, or imam you know. The people who feel this problem every week are the ones most likely to help fix it — and to know others who will.
Share the siteStart it in your state
Take the model bill and the step-by-step playbook and get it filed where you live. You'll have the full Massachusetts paper trail to work from — and someone to ask when you get stuck.
Open the playbook
Thou Shalt Park