People experience death in varied ways. Different colors, different cultures, demand different approaches to the dying process.
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Ordering more tests and surgeries for dying patients is easy. Getting them the end-of-life care they deserve takes much more effort.
Having hope as death nears is not always helpful – not if it’s delusionary and detracts from positive end-of-life attitudes and actions.
When dementia looms, how do you define ‘guideposts’ to signal: Enough is enough?
“Let’s stop fearing death and transform it into an experience that could bring us closer together as a family,” writes the real “Patch” Adams. “Let’s have a fun death.”
“Must we buy into the Grim Reaper routine? Are we not free to choose how we look at death?” Read what the real Patch Adams believes.
In the second of a two-part blog, a renowned EOL healthcare reformer (a triple amputee) talks to Final Exit Network about the thorny nexus between Medical Aid in Dying and the profound challenges faced by disabled people.
Two years ago, a book of thirty essays supporting the right to assisted death edited by Colin Brewer and Michael Irwin, was published by Skyscraper Publications, Ltd. Most of the essays make arguments familiar to Americans involved in the right-to-die movement, but often with a European (and British) take that makes them fresh. Others tell first-person stories that are as riveting as any heard in the US.
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