On April 24, Netflix released the six-episode second season of "After Life," starring, directed, and written by comedian Ricky Gervais. It continues to take viewers through the grief that Gervais's character Tony Johnson experiences after the death of his wife, Lisa, from breast cancer.
Healthcare surrogates are always important, but their role has become more difficult during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read about what can be done in this situation.
“National Healthcare Decisions Day” is Thursday, April 16, a day meant to encourage Americans to think about Advance Care Planning. Making plans for the possibility of a serious and even life-threatening illness is now a difficult reality in uncertain times.
As coronavirus cases increase worldwide, institutions keep their communities informed with frequent updates—but only up to a point. They share minimal information such as number of cases, but omit the names of individuals and identifying information, raising issues of privacy vs. transparency, which may be a life or death concern.
We now know that the coronavirus pandemic is deadly serious for all of the world's people. This fact has been reasonably clear since mid-January, and was undeniably clear a month later. As of now, this nation does not have the pandemic under control, and we did not control it at any time since it began.
A letter to the New York Times by FEN Board President Brian Ruder
We are all in the high-risk category for death because all living things die. However, each of us hopes to live a long, productive (however defined), satisfying life in the meantime. Covid-19 is causing many of us to reassess how long we may have left.
We are happy to announce that the redesigned FEN website is up and running.
Diane Coleman, President and CEO of Not Dead Yet, looks at the lack of resources available in the health care system as the nation prepares for overwhelming COVID-19 cases and discusses hoe the disabled will be significantly endangered.
A dialogue about the right to die in interview format between the blog editor and a woman who has lived over four decades as a paraplegic.
