A Bad Death: The Importance of Truth-Telling at End-of-Life
“Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.”
— Nanak (Continue reading ...)
Colombia Continues to Advance the Right of the End-of-Life Choice
“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." (Continue reading ...)
Date with Death Club
Given the fact of our mortality, whether we want it or not, aren’t we all members of a Date with Death Club? (Continue reading ...)
Books About Death and Dying 2020 – May 2022
Ideas for your reading pleasure ... (Continue reading ...)
What Is Death In A Post-Roe World? (Part 2)
"We’re literally legislating what states of life are worth protecting, which is very, very similar to the abortion debate." (Continue reading ...)
What Is Death In A Post-Roe World?
What is death? In a post Roe world, right to life groups may have some new thoughts on this.
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Terminology for Ending One’s Life at the End of One’s Life
It should be clear, as we argued in the first part of this two-part post, that the word “suicide” is not always appropriate. In this second part of our post, we offer a candidate word. (Continue reading ...)
Is the Word “Suicide” Appropriate in the End-of-Life Context?
The distress and pain that surrounds the suicide of a healthy person is different in kind and in degree from the distress and pain of the hastened death of a dying person. Vocabularies need to account for the difference between a killing and a death. (Continue reading ...)
On Their Own Terms
I hope others might be inspired to hold frank and open conversations about fundamental questions most of us will face. It would be so much less lonely for us all. (Continue reading ...)
Interview with Faye Girsh – An Activist for the Right to a Peaceful Death
"We have a long way to go to educate the public about choices in dying, about defining 'life', and about making the end less agonizing for patients and their families." (Continue reading ...)