President

President

Rev. Peter Friedrichs

Rev. Peter Friedrichs

Role: Board of Directors, PresidentCity: Keene

Peter is a recently-retired Unitarian Universalist minister who moved to Keene with his wife Irene in the summer of 2021. Peter practiced law in Portland, Maine for nearly 20 years before heeding his call to ministry. For 16 years he served the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County in Media, Pa. As a minister he has pastored countless individuals facing serious health challenges, many of whom were forced to face end-of-life decisions.

Peter has walked the path of grief and loss beside families whose loved ones were denied the right to choose how and when their lives would end. He is deeply committed to principles of personal autonomy and freedom of choice in all health care decisions.

As he contemplated his impending retirement in the spring of 2022, Peter had a vision of his own death, wherein he exercised his right to medical aid in dying. That vision led him to NH Options and his commitment to support its mission