Despite your best intentions, don’t wait until “five minutes to midnight” to take care of your end-of-life plan.
Despite your best intentions, don’t wait until “five minutes to midnight” to take care of your end-of-life plan.
What is the highest good and who decides? Here are some reflections on that question from Lamar Hankins.
Please join us in welcoming author, podcast host, and end-of-life educator, and atheist chaplain Terri Daniel as a guest contributor to the blog.
Lamar Hankins provides a point-by-point rebuttal to Wesley J. Smith’s attack on VSED.
Only 10% of us will die in our sleep. For the rest, here is a list that can help facilitate a peaceful and painless exit.
Did you catch the virtual Beautiful Dying Expo? Here’s a recap with some personal reflection.
Faye Girsh reflects on one of the biggest obstacles to the right to die.
Does COVID-19 have a silver lining for advocates of death with dignity? Barak Wolff of New Mexico End-of-Life Options Coalition thinks so.
Last week, I referred a caller to the Final Exit Network (FEN) to John B. Kelly, a Not Dead Yet opponent of right-to-die (RTD) laws. The person was inquiring on behalf of his brother (I’ll call him Carl) about the education and training services that FEN offers to applicants who want to hasten their deaths. The brother was trying to learn if FEN could help Carl, who was despairing of his condition.
Whether intentionally or inadvertently, a recent article in the Washington Post, written by a reporter with Kaiser Health News, provides confusing, incomplete, misleading, and perhaps inaccurate information about the choices a person with dementia may have. It dismisses legal issues by citing opinions from non-legal professionals.