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Stories about end-of-life issues, death with dignity, and the Right to Die movement

Widow has ‘no regrets’ assisting death of husband at Dignitas

Sky News speaks to a UK woman who is being investigated by police for assisting the death of her husband at Dignitas. Louise Shackleton, whose husband suffered from Motor Neurone…

My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

‘Their lives were getting harder, even with help. They did not want to go to a nursing home and neither wanted to live without the other. So they left this…

Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Documentary: The Right to Die – Laura’s Final Journey to Switzerland

Laura, an 88-year-old woman, embarks on a final journey to Switzerland to take control of her own death. Through the eyes of her daughter and granddaughter, both filmmakers, this documentary…

Most Americans Don’t Know About Medical Aid in Dying Options

This is why we do what we do, and why your support of our educational programs matters. “Medical aid in dying (MAID for short) is legal in 10 states—including New Jersey—and…

The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions

Daniel Kahneman was one of the world’s most influential thinkers—a psychologist at Princeton University, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author of the international blockbuster “Thinking, Fast and Slow,”…

Fighting a Disease That Steals Your Life and Your Soul

Inside Edition published an insightful report on a woman suffering with Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) and what happens between dementia and death. Don’t miss the second part that begins after the…

Death ‘is not a medical process. It shouldn’t be made one’: Suicide pod stirs controversy among right-to-die proponents

The latest update in the controversial debate surrounding Dr. Philip Nitschke’s Sarco pod for Voluntary Assisted Dying. Dr. Nitschke is a world-renowned pioneer in the global Right to Die movement…

Tuscany becomes the first region to approve assisted suicide in Roman Catholic Italy

Tuscany approved a bill regulating medically assisted suicide Tuesday, becoming Italy’s first region to approve a right-to-die law in the Roman Catholic country after the constitutional court effectively legalized the…

Who chooses medically assisted death?

This is a data-based discussion of who chooses MAID, that addresses the arguments and dispels the myths against it. Last December, researchers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe published a study in JAMA…