Precious Time
Not everyone gets Precious Time. It is a blessing if we recognize it for what it is, name it, and face it. (Continue reading ...)
Patients Want A ‘Good Death’ At Home, But Hospice Care Can Badly Strain Families (Part 2)
For many families, making hospice work at home means hiring extra help -- out of your own pocket. (Continue reading ...)
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 ...)
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 ...)
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 ...)
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 ...)
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 ...)
The Original Vision For FEN’s Blog
Final Exit Network's blog has had over 105,000 views since its inception. (Continue reading ...)
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 ...)
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 ...)