Death With Dignity – Page 6 – The Good Death Society Blog

September 25, 2022September 23, 2022

Colombia Continues to Advance the Right of the End-of-Life Choice

“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." (Continue reading ...)

September 11, 2022September 7, 2022

Date with Death Club

Given the fact of our mortality, whether we want it or not, aren’t we all members of a Date with Death Club? (Continue reading ...)

August 28, 2022August 17, 2022

Books About Death and Dying 2020 – May 2022

Ideas for your reading pleasure ... (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 ...)

July 31, 2022July 27, 2022

Terminology for Ending One’s Life at the End of One’s Life

It should be clear, as we argued in the first part of this two-part post, that the word “suicide” is not always appropriate. In this second part of our post, we offer a candidate word. (Continue reading ...)

July 24, 2022July 19, 2022

Is the Word “Suicide” Appropriate in the End-of-Life Context?

The distress and pain that surrounds the suicide of a healthy person is different in kind and in degree from the distress and pain of the hastened death of a dying person. Vocabularies need to account for the difference between a killing and a death. (Continue reading ...)

July 17, 2022July 13, 2022