The Good Death Society Blog | A Project of Final Exit Network

June 11, 2023June 8, 2023

Patients Want A ‘Good Death’ At Home, But Hospice Care Can Badly Strain Families

“Imagine if you’re the caregiver, and that you’re in the house. It’s in the middle of the night, 2 o’clock in the morning, and all of a sudden, your family member has a grand mal seizure.” (Continue reading ...)

June 4, 2023June 5, 2023

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 ...)

May 28, 2023May 29, 2023

We Like To Talk About “A Good Death”. But How Often Does This Really Happen?

Even though I would argue that most deaths aren’t good, we improve the quality of death of the vast majority of people we care for, often substantially. And there isn’t much that’s more satisfying than that. It just doesn’t make the death good. (Continue reading ...)

May 21, 2023May 20, 2023

Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation Should Respect Human Rights

With the assistance of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies and Exit International, I surveyed voluntary assisted dying (VAD) advocates and supporters around the world to inject some much-needed data and objectivity into the VAD debate. (Continue reading ...)

May 14, 2023May 12, 2023

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 ...)

May 8, 2023May 12, 2023

The Original Vision For FEN’s Blog

Final Exit Network's blog has had over 105,000 views since its inception. (Continue reading ...)

May 7, 2023May 5, 2023

DEA Has Rare Moment Of Good Sense, Prodded By Outcry From Right To Die Community

We had a a rare reason to celebrate last week when the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) pulled back on its threat to curtail the boom in “telemedicine” that allowed us to deal with COVID-19. (Continue reading ...)

April 30, 2023April 27, 2023

Adults Can Help Children Cope With Death By Understanding How They Process It

It’s important to have age-appropriate dialogue with children about death. (Continue reading ...)

April 23, 2023April 19, 2023

Fear Of Death Underlies Most Of Our Phobias

There is growing research exploring the overwhelming anxiety that the inevitability of death, and our uncertainty about when it will occur, has the power to create. A social psychological theory, called terror management theory (TMT), is one way to understand how this anxiety influences our behaviour and sense of self. (Continue reading ...)

April 16, 2023April 13, 2023

My Husband Was Dying. I Was Being Ignored.

These stories are not for everyone, but they are topics that the author believes shouldn't remain in the silence. (Continue reading ...)

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