“We reached the goal for patients like me, who aren’t terminal but degenerative, to win this battle, a battle that opens the doors for the other patients who come after me."
Children have also experienced the death of close relatives, but it often happens that we try to hide death from children in a misguided attempt to protect them. Far from helpful, this confuses children and prevents them from handling the pain of the loss they have suffered.
Does celebrating the Day of the Dead mean Mexicans welcome death? Not necessarily, according to one prominent end-of-life expert in Mexico.
Asunción Álvarez del Río, PhD, a FEN member in Mexico City, reports on the status of aid in dying in Spain.
