The Danger of Pathologizing Normal Emotions
Your emotional reaction to a dread disease diagnosis can have major implications for whether your treatment preferences will be accepted. (Continue reading ...)
Vermont Amends Patient Choice at End of Life Law to Improve Access
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. (Continue reading ...)
Beware Religious Restrictions: Patients and Doctors
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. (Continue reading ...)
For People With Dementia, Changes in MAiD Law Offer New Hope
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. (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 ...)
Choosing The Clothes To Die For
“I’m more afraid of living than I am of dying.” (Continue reading ...)
40 States Do Not Allow Medical Aid in Dying – Mine Is One
A friend’s .357 “solution” reinforced his decision to learn from right-to-die groups. (Continue reading ...)
Getting Comfortable with the ‘D’ Word
Talking about death doesn’t make it happen sooner. (Continue reading ...)
Conservative Columnist Endorses MAiD – RTD Draws No Political Boundaries
"Medical aid in dying should not be proscribed by society’s laws or condemned by its mores." (Continue reading ...)
As a Disabled Person, Autonomy Over My Healthcare Is Paramount
People with disabilities speak up for MAiD; some “rights” groups would deny them choice. (Continue reading ...)