The Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS) is a think-and-do tank designing and promoting blueprints for a compassionate society grounded in deep ethical thinking. Our vision is a world that eliminates the preventable suffering of all sentient beings.

Our mission is two-fold:

Advocate for solutions to specific causes of intense suffering Promote a compassionate ethical foundation for global decision-making where the prevention and alleviation of intense suffering is given the highest priority, within a system that aims to meet the needs of all

Specific cause areas we are currently focusing on include:

Access to effective medication to relieve severe physical pain in humans, including Morphine for terminal cancer and other serious conditions, especially in lower-income countries where it is largely inaccessible Effective treatments for excruciating cluster (“suicide”) headaches that are difficult to access due to strict legal regulations

to relieve severe physical pain in humans, including Ending the horrors of factory farming and other forms of torture of non-human animals

OPIS was founded in 2016 as a Swiss non-profit association and is headquartered in Geneva. Follow us on Facebook and on Twitter. (Read also this interview from January 2019 about OPIS and our goals.)

We rely on donations to run our projects and are grateful for your support!