Posts Tagged ‘death with dignity’
When Medical Treatment is Worse than Death
10, Aug 2010Letting Go What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Atul Gawande, The New Yorker (August 2, 2010) Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane Terry Gross, Fresh Air on WHHY (July 29, 2010) A few weeks ago, Dr. Atul Gawande wrote a good piece on End of Life decision making [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: assisted dying, bioethics, death with dignity
Doctors Should Talk with Patients about Death
20, May 2010Doctors Should Talk To Patients About How They Want To Die, Says Regulator James Meikle, The Guardian (May 20 2010) The last month’s worth of news coverage in the UK has focused on nothing but the May elections so it was good to see an old fashioned death and dying story in the Guardian. My [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics|Suicide
- Tags: death with dignity
Rationing End-of-Life Care Debate
29, Apr 2010Debating the Ethics of Rationing End-of-Life Care The NewsHour (April 26, 2010) The NewsHour on PBS ran a short piece on a recent end-of-life care debate at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. A video from the debate, which was much longer and must be available somewhere on the interweb, is embedded [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, death with dignity, video
Man Dying of Cancer Sells Ad Space on Urn
27, Apr 2010Springfield Man Selling Ad Space on His Urn Laura Rillos, KVAL News I have read many, many ridiculous death and dying stories over the years but this one is really amazing. The backstory itself isn’t ridiculous– it’s actually really sad and tragic. KVAL News in Oregon can explain: Given just months to live, Aaron Jamison [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Death + the Economy|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: death with dignity, insurance, urns
Live Free and Die in Montana
16, Jan 2010Ruling by Montana Supreme Court Bolsters Physician-Assisted Suicide by Kirk Johnson, New York Times (January 10, 2010) Last September I posted an article on a Montana man who took his right-to-die case to the Montana State Supreme Court. The case involved 76-year old Robert Baxter who, sadly, died of leukemia before the case made it [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: death with dignity