As a counter-point to Derek Humphry’s recent post, the director of FEN’s Exit Guide program voices support for self-deliverance based on a “completed life.”
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Bill Palmer shares some reflections and insights as founder of Death Cafe Oakland in California.
Has anyone told you to not be afraid or angry when making end-of-life decisions? They were wrong.
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.
Most dementia directives call for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) at a prescribed point late in the progression of dementia. In most cases, this requires eliminating hand feeding based on the proposition that hand feeding is a medical treatment or medical care.
A 30-year old Florida Supreme Court decision may provide support for the use of a dementia directive that provides for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED).
This post, Part 3 of a series on dementias directives, discusses the supplemental advance directive for dementia offered by Final Exit Network (FEN) for those people who do NOT want to live into the later stages of dementia. The FEN dementia directive was drafted by FEN’s legal counsel, Robert Rivas.
Part 1 of this multi-part analysis identifies eight Dementia Directives by authorship and discusses overall characteristics of each. This second part analyses the approaches to drafting such directives to help readers think about the elements of each.
This post begins a multi-part series about dementia directives, analyzing their provisions and their purposes.
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.
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