In the second of a two-part blog, a renowned EOL healthcare reformer (a triple amputee) talks to Final Exit Network about the thorny nexus between Medical Aid in Dying and the profound challenges faced by disabled people.
A cache of old videos recalls the height of the AIDS crisis and its critical, emotional nexus with the developing right-to-die movement.
You do everything you can, take every possible step to delay the inevitable. At what point do you say, “Enough. I’m done.” And welcome freedom.
With or without Medical Aid in Dying, VSED offers a legal option; a new book explains all the ins and outs from every angle.
If we believe much of what we read, suicide by U.S. seniors is running rampant. Don’t believe it. Some of those “suicidal” folks are making rational decisions to retire from a life well lived that is no longer worth extending.
When you believe it’s time to go, what options do you really have? There are more than you you think, without having to resort to a violent ending.
A TED Talk star, interviewed by Oprah and featured in N.Y. Times Magazine, opens up to Final Exit Network about Medical Aid in Dying, the state of U.S. healthcare, and how we irrationally fear death.
Smart, independent and strong-willed, Lillian blogged openly about her intention to “turn out the lights” in her own time. After it happened, the obituaries did not tell it the way she wanted.
Everyone clamors for “a natural death.” It rarely happens. “We have always done everything in our power to wrestle death from the hands of nature,” says someone who knows.
It’s a pillar of the RTD movement, that we treat our suffering pets more humanely than suffering friends and family members. “Let me die like a dog” has long been a call to compassion. The author went through the agonizing decision to “put down” a beloved canine companion, and he regrets not knowing what “Woody” would have wanted.
