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Being aware of terminal lucidity can help loved ones understand it is part of the dying process.
I have received many lovely messages in the weeks since my dad died – including one that will always stay with me, writes Adrian Chiles
After a decision to spare her further interventions, she lives a full two months more – and teaches us a few things along the way
Not everyone has moments of clarity when they find out they are dying. My wife did.
Most workplace bereavement policies were designed prior to MAID and very few employers have adjusted these policies in light of the new reality of living and dying in Canada.
I am shocked at how shocked I am. Why are we so unprepared when the inevitable comes to pass, asks Adrian Chiles
Award-winning Australian writer Cory Taylor spent the last years of her life fascinated with her own mortality. In her last weeks, she shared some of her insights in a bedside interview with Richard Fidler.
Grief is raw, complex, often fraught — and "moving on" from a loss is rarely straightforward or linear.
Monatophobia means our terror of confronting the thing we dread most without the support of loved ones – the kind of death I wouldn’t mind for myself.
Once our most intensive interventions end, we are left with this — a choice of tuna fish or chicken salad, or maybe some Oreos, brought up from the hospital basement.
Casey McIntyre died from cancer on 14 November, but she devised a plan to cancel the medical debt of others as a parting gift
Web-based connections are simply not as good as in-person ones.
Cathy Watson, who is dying, was devastated she couldn’t attend her son’s wedding. But then an ambulance service stepped in.
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If health care is interpreted in the truest sense of caring for people’s health, it must extend well beyond the boundaries of hospitals and clinics.
In a new book, Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan raises critical questions about the societal, political and ethical costs of attempts to live forever.
Dr. Bob Ross cares for the aging residents of Ortonville, Minn, even as he wonders whether he, and the presidential candidates, are up to all their tasks.
Proponents of legalising assisted dying are right to stop and think of the possible unintended consequences
Taranaki midwife Sharon Robinson is having a party for friends, families and children she helped bring into the world to celebrate being alive.
Then I talked to some end-of-life experts. Here’s what I found out.
A social worker explains ‘living loss’ and provides five ways for clinicians to help patients, and their families, acknowledge and move through their grief.
After his sister Julie’s death, Lynda Shannon Bluestein, 76, taught him about her experience with the ‘medical aid in dying’ process.
Medical aid in dying gave my sister a choice about how her life ended.
Facing terminal cancer, Annie Werner realised she didn’t want people saying ‘super nice’ things about her after she had died. She wanted to be there – so she held a living wake
U.S. law on determination of death needs refining, but how? Not behind closed doors.
Life is all about a series of moments, and I plan to spend as much remaining time as I can savoring each one.
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