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July 3, 2022July 2, 2022

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 ...)

June 26, 2022June 16, 2022

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 ...)

June 19, 2022June 16, 2022

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 ...)

June 12, 2022June 14, 2022

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 ...)

June 5, 2022June 1, 2022

New FEN Coordinator (An Update)

When a friend once confessed, "Jim, I don't think I could do what you're doing," I immediately blurted, "I don't think I could not do what I'm doing!" (Continue reading ...)

May 29, 2022May 30, 2022

I’m A Rabbi And I Helped My Father End His Life

I know well Judaism’s ban on euthanasia. But when I understood that my father would take his own life, I knew without a doubt that I would be by his side. (Continue reading ...)

May 22, 2022May 19, 2022