Medical Aid in Dying – Page 4 – The Good Death Society Blog

December 3, 2023December 1, 2023

Is Aid In Dying Right For You?

"Having a sense of the possibilities in advance is essential to minimize surprises, make specific requests for end-of-life symptom management, and decide the possible paths available to you." (Continue reading ...)

October 29, 2023October 31, 2023

VSED: The Least Bad Option

“Your mother didn’t choose a terminal illness. She only chose not to let the disease pick when and how she would die.” (Continue reading ...)

October 15, 2023October 23, 2023

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Should You Have A Fundamental Right To Control Your Own Death?

"What is fundamentally the difference between a doctor pulling a plug on a machine that provides lifesaving nutrients to a person that could potentially stay 'alive' on it for years, and a doctor prescribing pills to a person with mere days or months to live to end their unnecessary suffering?" (Continue reading ...)

September 17, 2023October 23, 2023

Pro Choice To The End Of Life

"Why would an anti-MAiD activist try to force a patient about whom they know nothing, to live by the activist’s personal values rather than the patient’s own?" (Continue reading ...)

July 30, 2023July 27, 2023

Choosing Death Over Suffering: Informing Patients About Physician Aid-In-Dying (Part 2)

When determining an ethical standard of discussing physician aid in dying (PAD) during medical decision-making, it is important to begin with the caveat that physicians are not ethically obligated to assist a patient in ending his or her life, even if the physician informs the patient of the right to do so. (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 28, 2023May 29, 2023

We Like To Talk About “A Good Death”. But How Often Does This Really Happen?

Even though I would argue that most deaths aren’t good, we improve the quality of death of the vast majority of people we care for, often substantially. And there isn’t much that’s more satisfying than that. It just doesn’t make the death good. (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 ...)

May 7, 2023May 5, 2023

DEA Has Rare Moment Of Good Sense, Prodded By Outcry From Right To Die Community

We had a a rare reason to celebrate last week when the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) pulled back on its threat to curtail the boom in “telemedicine” that allowed us to deal with COVID-19. (Continue reading ...)

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