 In 1994, Soros delivered a speech in which he reported that he had offered to help his mother, a member of the right-to-die advocacy organization Hemlock Society, commit suicide.In the same speech, he also endorsed the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, proceeding to help fund its advertising campaign.Soros' philanthropy and support for progressive causes has made him the object of a large number of conspiracy theories, most of them originating from the political right.