A constitutional challenge by a 75-year-old terminally-ill Bridgeport, Connectiut woman, Lynda Bluestein, and a Middlebury, Vt doctor specialising in hospice and palliative care, to the […]
An article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society calculated the number of Americans to have availed themselves of Medical Aid in Dying laws
A recent poll commissioned by Dying Right NC and carried out by the nonpartisan OH Predictive Insights group confirms that conservative GOP voters widely support
The story is all too familiar: on July 13, a 77-year old man telephoned 911 to report he had killed his suffering 71-year old wife
When MAID legislation was first proposed in the late 1990s, there were dire predictions that “physician assisted suicide” (as it was commonly called back in
It was all too foreseeable; all too common; all too tragic. A 64-year old Florida veteran Thomas Schultz, acting as caregiver simultaneously to his terminally
Medical Paternalism on the Brink Doctors have always enjoyed an undeniable prestige, an almost mystical clairvoyance and Solomonic judgment in the eyes of their patients.
Some Thoughts on Gideonse vs Brown Oregon’s land-mark decision impacts North Carolinians at End of Life On March 25, 2022, as a result of
Oregon will waive residency requirements In a significant development with potentially national implications, the State of Oregon has agreed to waive its residency requirements for
A North Carolina native made quadriplegic through a tragic accident weeks before her wedding speaks up on MAID
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California’s End of Life Option Act came into effect in 2016, with a sunset clause of 2026. However, since then, patients, clinicians and advocates have
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Bloomberg Business Week endorses amendments to California’s MAID law In a reprise of an earlier article chronicling the journalist’s efforts to help her father avail
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