Janis Landis

March 9, 2025March 10, 2025

Where There’s a (Living) Will, There’s a Way

What happens if you decide to update your Advance Directive or your surrogate? Will you remember to send it to your doctors, lawyer, surrogate, etc.? How will individuals be sure they have the latest copy? (Continue reading ...)

February 2, 2025January 30, 2025

Why FEN?

Final Exit Network, a nonprofit, offers end-of-life resources including articles on Exit Guide Services, Advance Directives, personal stories, and Healthcare Representatives, emphasizing the significance of choosing a suitable healthcare representative aligned with one's wishes for medical decision-making. Membership offers access to forums and events. (Continue reading ...)

June 2, 2024May 29, 2024

Who Needs An Elder Law Attorney?

"Does the contract allow you to have access to your own doctors? What is the facility’s position on VSED? If you enter hospice, will they commit to providing adequate pain relief? If you live in a state with MAiD, will the facility cooperate?" (Continue reading ...)

August 14, 2022August 15, 2022

What Is Death In A Post-Roe World? (Part 2)

"We’re literally legislating what states of life are worth protecting, which is very, very similar to the abortion debate." (Continue reading ...)

August 7, 2022August 3, 2022

What Is Death In A Post-Roe World?

What is death? In a post Roe world, right to life groups may have some new thoughts on this. (Continue reading ...)

May 26, 2019

The six-months-to-live prognosis limitation in RTD laws makes FEN necessary

More jurisdictions are accepting physician-assisted death (PAD). What does this mean for Final Exit Network? Are we becoming less relevant, or more? FEN President Janis Landis addresses these questions. (Continue reading ...)

May 15, 2018

A reader’s question about nitrogen

We’ve received a question from a reader which we believe would be of general interest. The writer asks: "How does FEN President Janis Landis know there is no air hunger with nitrogen inhalation onset? Is this an assumption, inference, observation, result of experimentation? Please clarify." (Continue reading ...)

April 29, 2018March 16, 2022

An obituary I would like to see

No, it is not an obituary for a specific individual. It is an obituary that recognizes and celebrates taking control of one’s end-of-life suffering. (Continue reading ...)