Robb Miller

Robb has spent the past 20+ years as an activist for better end-of-life care and expanded choice, including medical aid in dying.

With advanced degrees in applied science and kinesiology, and American College of Sports Medicine certification, he started his career working as an athletic director and kinesiologist.

After witnessing his father and his own long-time partner experience bad deaths in the mid 1990s, Robb embarked on a new career in end-of-life advocacy. He became executive director of the organization now known as End of Life Washington (EOLWA), which he led from 2000 – 2015. Robb was a leader and spokesperson for the initiative to pass the Washington Death with Dignity Act, which received nearly 60 percent of the vote in 2009.

Robb is the author of several groundbreaking advance planning documents, including EOLWA’s Hospital Visitation Authorization for LGBTQ people, a comprehensive Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare that set a new standard for advance planning documents in Washington, and two first-of-their kind advance planning tools for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia: the “Living With Dementia Mental Health Directive” and “My Instructions for Oral Feeding and Drinking.”

Currently, Robb is executive director emeritus of EOLWA and serves on its public policy and legal committee. He is a member of the National Voluntary Stopping Eating Drinking Advance Directive Committee. In addition to working with NH Options, he is an advisor to Arizona End of Life Options, End of Life Choices California, and the New Zealand Ministry of Health.