Assisted Suicide – The Good Death Society Blog

December 14, 2025December 12, 2025

Passing of a Pioneer and Warrior

DIGNITAS mourns the death of its founder and Secretary General Ludwig A. Minelli, who died on 29 November 2025 shortly before his 93rd birthday by voluntary assisted dying. (Continue reading ...)

April 27, 2025April 28, 2025

Does palliative sedation ease suffering during end-of-life care?

What constitutes unbearable suffering, and at what point is palliative sedation appropriate? Is there a difference between palliative sedation and euthanasia? (Continue reading ...)

December 15, 2024December 12, 2024

Why all the fuss?

"If no one is encouraging those opposed to hastening their death, I don't understand why there is so much antagonism from the medical, religious, and legal communities?" -- Jim Van Buskirk (Continue reading ...)

July 14, 2024July 10, 2024

Debunking falsehoods about Death with Dignity

"Opponents of Death-with-Dignity (DWD) laws use several falsehoods in their attempts to prevent legislation from passing. We believe policy decisions affecting people with terminal illness should be made based on evidence and the actual content of the legislation." (Continue reading ...)

February 11, 2024February 9, 2024

Medical Aid In Dying

"New legislation and court judgments are further expanding access to MAID, some bringing new and different twists." (Continue reading ...)

July 23, 2023July 21, 2023

Choosing Death Over Suffering: Informing Patients About Physician Aid-In-Dying (Part 1)

As more states legalize PAD and the practice becomes more ethically accepted, it is important to determine a standard of care to guide physicians. (Continue reading ...)

June 4, 2023June 5, 2023

Respecting End-of-Life Choice: The Art of the Possible

Advocates, supporters, and champions (of MAiD) need to decide if it is better to have a law that is less than ideal … or have no law at all? Is something better than nothing? (Continue reading ...)

May 14, 2023May 12, 2023

Medical Aid In Dying Is Still Called “Assisted Suicide”; An Anthropologist Explains The Problem With That

It’s time that we revise and refine our cultural lexicon around this emergent end-of-life practice. A medically assisted death definitively warrants a linguistic and conceptual category of its own. (Continue reading ...)

November 20, 2022November 16, 2022