Given the fact of our mortality, whether we want it or not, aren’t we all members of a Date with Death Club?
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“We’re literally legislating what states of life are worth protecting, which is very, very similar to the abortion debate.”
What is death? In a post Roe world, right to life groups may have some new thoughts on this.
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.
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.
Your emotional reaction to a dread disease diagnosis can have major implications for whether your treatment preferences will be accepted.
When the PCEOL was enacted in 2013, it incorporated the traditional Oregon safeguards. But over the past ten years, experience demonstrated that feared problems have not occurred.
Patients may not be aware that their health care system is faith-based, and rarely understand the restrictions that their health systems have implemented — until they need this care.
Changes to Bill C-7 (Canada) have released people with dementia from a cruel trap by letting them make provisions in advance to end their lives.
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