In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. “Death is not a mystery. It is not a ...
Tiffany Johnson, an Oak Park woman who helps the dying navigate the last months and weeks of life, has recently found herself ...
Seven terminally ill people drank the potion that was supposed to end their lives and…woke up? How? Why? When?
J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a ...
When Kristina Newport, MD, was a first-year medical resident doing a night shift at a small veterans’ hospital, one of her patients, who was very sick with multiple chronic diseases, made the decision ...
New York’s Medical Aid in Dying is often framed as compassion guided by medical expertise. But is the legislation prescribing ...
Death is a fact of everyone’s life—not so much our own death, which is projected into some indefinite, unthinkable, future, but rather the death of others-- of those people we care about. Usually as ...
Imagine a world where patients with life-limiting illness think about requesting medical assistance to end their own lives before they hear about other options. In caring for patients at the end of ...
(The Conversation) — Some patients with a terminal illness seem to be able to ‘hold on’ until after an anticipated holiday or event. This might be less about staying positive and more about being ...
Plaintiffs behind the lawsuit asked the state's U.S. District Court to "block" Delaware's enforcement of its end-of-life ...
A New York law grants patients the right to request aid in dying. But do the clinicians who guide them through that decision ...
The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, showed that the risk may be related to altered ...