What It Feels Like To DieSeptember 13, 2016 |
Science is just beginning to understand the experience of life’s end
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Reframing Shared Decision Making at the End of LifeAugust 29, 2016 |
Video: Our Marie Nolan delivers the National Institute of Nursing Research Director’s Lecture
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William J. Hager, 86, said he had run out of options. His wife, Carolyn Hager, 78, had been ill for the last 15 of the more than 50 years they were married. The cost of her medications had become so burdensome that they could no longer afford it, he said
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Aid-In-Dying: Not So EasyMay 5, 2016 |
Starting June 9, terminally ill Californians with six months or less to live can request a doctor’s prescription for medications intended to end their lives peacefully. If that sounds simple, it won’t be
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Not long ago, a frail-looking elderly patient appeared at my cardiac health clinic with a file full of hospitalizations stemming from a heart attack years before… I saw that a previous doctor had written “DNR” — do not resuscitate — in his chart, so I asked him to confirm his wishes. No, he said, to my surprise. He actually wanted to be a “full code”
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As the End Nears, ‘Death Doulas’ Ease the WayApril 8, 2016 |
Among midwives and doulas, there’s a belief that no one should feel alone during life’s mystifying, sometimes terrifying, start. A growing number of people believe death should be no different.
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“It’s Not Worth Me Having a Long-Life Lightbulb”April 6, 2016 |
Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and dying amongst the very old. The research, from the University of Cambridge and published today in the journal PLOS ONE, finds that this group is willing to discuss dying and their end-of-life care, but is seldom asked
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A Letter To… The Hospice Doctor Who Helped Us to Say GoodbyeMarch 28, 2016 |
…”For the first time in the entire period of my father’s cancer, my mother cries. Woman to woman, you look at her and she feels your genuine solidarity. It is a turning point, and from then on my mother prepares to cut free from her husband of more than 55 years”
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