The Euthanasia Educational Fund was established by of the Euthanasia Society of America in 1967 as a tax-exempt organization under US law.
[1] It later renamed itself the Euthanasia Educational Council in 1972, and Concern for Dying in 1978.
[2][3] The last name change was due to popular misconception that euthanasia referred to so-called "mercy killing", which the society opposed.
[4] Concern for Dying promoted right to die legislation in several US states, as well as promoting the idea of a living will and other legal measures supporting the right to die.
[3] By the 1980s the organization became one of the biggest groups promoting voluntary euthanasia in the US, alongside the Society for the Right to Die.