“Sleep deprivation amplified every emotion and wore me down quickly,” she said. She was exhausted, angry, and felt guilty. She was “flying blind” to be the surrogate as Betty neared death – and she was a trained, experienced hospice RN. What does that say about your chance of being an effective surrogate?
On the surface, continued passage of U.S. death-with-dignity laws appears favorable for the RTD cause. But the landscape is littered with potholes, land mines, and detours that raise more questions than the new laws address.
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.
More FEN members share why they care about the right to die in general, and why they joined FEN in particular.
More stories from FEN members about why the right to die is important to them.
Lamar Hankins, who was partly disabled for much of his adult life and whose father was severely disabled before dying from complications of Alzheimer’s, shares why he supports the right to die even for the disabled.
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.”
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.
