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December 17, 2023December 14, 2023

How Not To Die In The E.R.

"There should be a JLMA form: Just Leave Me Alone, for those of us who concede that we’re actually going to die some day and work to keep our end-times as inexpensive and comfortable as possible." (Continue reading ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

January 29, 2023January 28, 2023

Whose Death Is It, Anyway?

Unconscious, Michael lingered for hours. His waiting children had no one to call for advice, but Michael had left instructions for this eventuality. Sobbing, his son Bill lovingly carried out his father’s wishes. (Continue reading ...)

January 8, 2023January 11, 2023

Times to Have “The Conversation”

“The rest is up to you,” he finally said, ending the conversation for good. He didn’t have any more guidance, and certainly no more patience to talk about it. I was surprised. To me, it felt slightly irresponsible to leave all these decisions to other people. (Continue reading ...)

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 ...)

June 12, 2022June 14, 2022

Interview with Faye Girsh – An Activist for the Right to a Peaceful Death

"We have a long way to go to educate the public about choices in dying, about defining 'life', and about making the end less agonizing for patients and their families." (Continue reading ...)

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