A Review of The Good Death by Ann Neumann
February 16, 2016
Our supporters often join the Death with Dignity movement because of a heartbreaking personal experience. Ann Neumann began her exploration of dying in our country after witnessing her father’s death. The result of Neumann’s work is her new book,…
New Stories This Year: Lenore Avin, Anne Lower, Joseph Halsey
February 12, 2016
This year we’ve published three stories so far, from California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Do you have Death with Dignity story to tell? Please share it with us. Lenore Avin: The Opportunity to Die with Dignity…
The Kind of Death We All Want
January 13, 2016
By Chris de Boinville (subheadings are ours) Chris is our constituent and supporter in Maryland. This article is an edited transcript of her testimony to the Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee at its March 6, 2015 hearing, in…
A Gentler Way to Die
January 6, 2016
Update: California’s physician-assisted dying law, ABX2-15 (AB-15), the End of Life Option Act, took effect on June 9, 2016. By Christopher Stookey, MD The California End of Life Option Act (ABX2-15), signed into law on…
New Stories This Week: Jordan Zweigoron and Lori Novak
December 18, 2015
This week we published two new stories, from California and Minnesota. Do you have Death with Dignity story to tell? Please share it with us. Jordan Zweigoron: Every Entrepreneur Will Want the Option Jordan Zweigoron is a…
New Stories This Week: Melissa Wood, Christina Derwey, Holly Berg, Amy Neese, and Mary Klein
December 13, 2015
This week, we published five new stories, from California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and two from Texas. Christina Derwey: I Want to Have the Choice Christina Derwey is a retired postal worker in Crescent City,…
New Stories This Week: Christopher Stookey and Deborah Flynn
December 4, 2015
Most people join our movement because of a heartbreaking personal experience. Such stories, which we receive every day, inspire us to work toward ensuring terminally-ill Americans have the freedom to decide how they die. This week, we published two new…
On Human Rights and Dying
November 19, 2015
By Valerie Lovelace Our rights as human beings are defined solely by legislation. Precious few in number, these human rights have always been influenced by various special interest groups. When I asked a law professor friend what a human right…
The Gifts Dying Can Give
July 24, 2015
By Barbara Karnes, RN What beauty, strength, or gifts can death bring? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and in our society today death is often not seen as beautiful or as a peaceful exit from a life…
At Death’s Door
July 17, 2015
By Karen Kaplan For me, what’s on tap after death is unknowable. Not only that, what will happen right before is just about equally mysterious. How can we predict the way each of us is actually going to feel when…