Right-to-Die Laws

Feb 11

4

Medical Aid In Dying

By Thaddeus M. Pope, JD, PhD | Advance Directives, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity, Death With Dignity Act, End-of-Life Planning, Euthanasia, Medical Aid in Dying, Oregon Death with Dignity Act, PAD, Right-to-Die Laws, The Right to Die | 15 Comments

“New legislation and court judgments are further expanding access to MAID, some bringing new and different twists.”

Feb 04

6

Hospice And Medical Aid-in-Dying: Addressing An Unethical Disconnect

By Gianna Strand, David Hoffman, Karin Sobeck, Sarah Kiskadden-Bechtel | Death With Dignity, Death With Dignity Act, End-of-life care, End-of-Life Planning, Hospice, Medical Aid in Dying, Oregon Death with Dignity Act, Paliative Care, Right-to-Die Laws, The Right to Die | 8 Comments

“One facility used the term “provider-hastened death” and stated that it encompasses euthanasia.”

Oct 15

4

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

By Kayleigh Wright | Death With Dignity, End-of-Life Planning, Hospice, Medical Aid in Dying, Paliative Care, Right-to-Die Laws, Suffering and Death, The Right to Die | 6 Comments

“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?”

Sep 17

4

Pro Choice To The End Of Life

By Dr. Susan Robinson | Choice, Death With Dignity, Disability, Disability Rights, Discrimination, End-of-life care, Medical Aid in Dying, Oregon Death with Dignity Act, PAD, Rational Death, Right-to-Die Laws, The Right to Die | 10 Comments

“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?”

Jun 04

2

Respecting End-of-Life Choice: The Art of the Possible

By Barak Wolff | Assisted Suicide, End-of-life care, Medical Aid in Dying, Oregon Death with Dignity Act, Right-to-Die Laws | One Comment

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?

May 14

0

Medical Aid In Dying Is Still Called “Assisted Suicide”; An Anthropologist Explains The Problem With That

By Anita Hannig | Assisted Suicide, Choice, Completed Life, Death, Death With Dignity, Death With Dignity Act, Dying, Grief, Medical Aid in Dying, Mental Illness, Oregon Death with Dignity Act, PAD, Rational Death, Rational Suicide, Religion, Right-to-Die Laws, Suffering and Death, Suicide, The Right to Die | 5 Comments

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.

Mar 26

1

Quality Of Life At The End Of Life

By Barak Wolff | Choice, Death With Dignity, End-of-life care, End-of-Life Planning, Medical Aid in Dying, Right-to-Die Laws, The Right to Die | One Comment

The lawsuit does not attack the right of patients to access medical aid in dying, which is the heart of the bill. Rather, it challenges provisions of the law that require providers to inform patients of the availability of medical aid in dying, and to refer those patients to a willing provider if the patient’s primary provider is unable or is unwilling for any reason.

Dec 04

0

Psychosocial Reasons For Hastening Death

By Mary Ewert, FEN Executive Director | Dementia, End-of-life care, Final Exit Network, Medical Aid in Dying, Right-to-Die Laws, Suffering and Death, Suicide | 4 Comments

Recognizing the importance of psychosocial factors to those considering a hastened death led FEN to more explicitly recognize the importance of psychosocial factors when evaluating an applicant’s medical records. By making psychosocial factors more explicit in our criteria, we honor what truly matters to those who reach out to us.

Oct 30

3

Sharing VSED Resources In My Community

By Nancy Simmers | Choice, Completed Life, Death, Death Doula, Death With Dignity, Dying, End-of-life care, Final Exit Network, Hospice, Medical Aid in Dying, Paliative Care, Right-to-Die Laws, Suffering and Death, The Right to Die, VSED | 4 Comments

VSED might not be for everyone, but it is the only chance for some to experience an end to unbearable suffering. Done with careful preparation, medical support, and compassionate caregiving, VSED offers a natural end to life.

Sep 25

2

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

By Asuncion Alvarez | Assisted Suicide, Choice, Completed Life, Death With Dignity, End-of-life care, Euthanasia, Medical Aid in Dying, PAD, Rational Suicide, Right-to-Die Laws, Suffering and Death, The Right to Die | 2 Comments

“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.”