What Does the Public Think Should Happen?September 10, 2019 |
When parents and doctors disagree about life support for a child?
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The Role of Nurses When Patients Decide to End Their LivesSeptember 6, 2019 |
Some hospitals and hospices have policies that forbid nurses to be part of the process or even to discuss end-of-life options
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Is Dying at Home Overrated?September 5, 2019 |
A palliative care physician struggles with the complex realities of dying at home, and the unintended consequences of making it a societal priority
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Two brothers are combining palliative care expertise, linguistics and AI to encourage more effective conversations between doctors and people receiving end-of-life care
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The AI That Could Help Curb Youth SuicideJuly 15, 2019 |
For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot LGBTQ teens in trouble. Can Google help?
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In Secret, Seniors Discuss ‘Rational Suicide’June 25, 2019 |
Ten residents slipped away from their retirement community one Sunday afternoon for a covert meeting in a grocery store cafe. They aimed to answer a taboo question: When they feel they have lived long enough, how can they carry out their own swift and peaceful death?
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Die. Freeze Body. Store. Revive.June 21, 2019 |
Until the day he died, in 2011, Robert Ettinger hoped humanity would figure out a way to cheat death. Today, his body is stored in a cryonic vessel filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to –196 degrees Celsius
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For each adult saved by this machine — dubbed ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — another adult hooked up to the equipment dies in the hospital. For those patients, the intervention is a very expensive, labor-intensive and unsuccessful effort to cheat death
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