Pro Choice To The End Of Life
"Why would an anti-MAiD activist try to force a patient about whom they know nothing, to live by the activist’s personal values rather than the patient’s own?" (Continue reading ...)
Respecting End-of-Life Choice: The Art of the Possible
Advocates, supporters, and champions (of MAiD) need to decide if it is better to have a law that is less than ideal … or have no law at all? Is something better than nothing? (Continue reading ...)
Medical Aid In Dying Is Still Called “Assisted Suicide”; An Anthropologist Explains The Problem With That
It’s time that we revise and refine our cultural lexicon around this emergent end-of-life practice. A medically assisted death definitively warrants a linguistic and conceptual category of its own. (Continue reading ...)
Quality Of Life At The End Of Life
The lawsuit does not attack the right of patients to access medical aid in dying, which is the heart of the bill. Rather, it challenges provisions of the law that require providers to inform patients of the availability of medical aid in dying, and to refer those patients to a willing provider if the patient’s primary provider is unable or is unwilling for any reason. (Continue reading ...)
Psychosocial Reasons For Hastening Death
Recognizing the importance of psychosocial factors to those considering a hastened death led FEN to more explicitly recognize the importance of psychosocial factors when evaluating an applicant’s medical records. By making psychosocial factors more explicit in our criteria, we honor what truly matters to those who reach out to us. (Continue reading ...)
Sharing VSED Resources In My Community
VSED might not be for everyone, but it is the only chance for some to experience an end to unbearable suffering. Done with careful preparation, medical support, and compassionate caregiving, VSED offers a natural end to life. (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 ...)
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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