Edited sentence: HPA views assisted-suicide as incompatible with real hospice care that allows for the unfinished business at the end-of-life including the healing of relationships within the family and spiritual growth at the end-of-life.HPA works with patients, families and members of the professional health care community to improve conditions for patients and staff in hospices, palliative care units and elsewhere within our society.HPA's mission is to promote excellence in end-of-life care that relieves suffering at the end-of-life while allowing a natural death in its own timing.Listed below are some major organizations that oppose assisted suicide:.Others who oppose the practice of assisted suicide argue that many vulnerable elderly, disabled and chronically-ill patients may be manipulated into requesting assisted-suicide, which makes the assisted-suicide actually a form of involuntary euthanasia