Two Views, One Exit
Two participants, one an exit guide and one a friend, look at the same voluntary exit and report their experiences, emotions.
OK, I Want to Exit. What’s Next?
John Abraham explains the process to receive educational and training services from the Final Exit Network if you are considering a self-controlled death.
FEN Needs Volunteers
Huck DeVenzio, FEN's Newsletter Editor, explains the role of volunteers within FEN and the need for volunteers.
Death With Dignity from a personal perspective
Jim Waun, a retired anesthesiologist, shares some of his personal experiences that led him to support the Death With Dignity movement and the Final Exit Network (FEN), and he explains how FEN's Exit Guide program works.
Dying in the Americas Conference
Final Exit Network announces Dying in the Americas 2018, a conference devoted to re-imagining the future of dying with the objective of a peaceful death for everyone. The conference will take place March 21 to March 25, 2018, in the peaceful setting of the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa in Henderson, Nevada, in the foothills outside Las Vegas. The program is open to academics, health care professionals, physicians, nurses, geriatric social workers, Thanatologists, hospice and nursing facility personnel, palliative care specialists, insurance and government professionals, and those interested in improving the quality of the dying experience for both the patient and family.
Mental health, suffering, and a “Good Death”
Usually, when we talk about suffering, we are thinking of physical suffering. But there are many people with severe, unresolved, debilitating mental illness who can find no relief from their suffering – suffering that is just as real (though its cause is different) as that experienced, for instance, by a patient at the end stages of pancreatic cancer, or a patient dying of metastasized prostate cancer. And none of the existing programs and services can help those with unrelenting mental illness die a peaceful death – a good death – to put an end to their suffering.
A toast “to life” may include the wish for a peaceful death
Nearly everyone hopes for a peaceful death; yet such an end can be elusive. Many of us face both philosophical and practical questions as we do what we can to make our own deaths peaceful.
Some of us may have religious questions. Judaism, like many other religions, is all over the map in its thinking about ways to achieve a peaceful death.