BY CRAIG KLUGMAN, Ph.D. The film, “The Farewell” claims to be a movie “based on an actual lie.” Billi is a first generation Chinese-American twenty-something artist living in New York near her parents. After not being awarded a Guggenheim fellowship (a fact she hides from her family), she learns that her parents are heading back […]
My Aunt Rose, Chocolate Chip Cookies and a Conversation that Changed Our Relationship BY CRAIG KLUGMAN, Ph.D. When you are an ethics student writing your dissertation on end of life issues, you talk to a lot of people about what they hope for in their final days. In my immediate family, this was a fairly […]
Getting On, an HBO workplace comedy set in a women’s geriatric clinic, features a director of medicine who collaborates with a hospice to provide bed space for the dying. The arrangement is lucrative, and it helps support the dubious research studies of the physician, Dr. Jenna James. She becomes greedy, though, and begins to enroll […]
BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmedia.org “Right to Try” legislation making its way through Congress is outraging some medical professionals, though the bill is being cheered on by many conservative activists. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a controversial bill this month to allow terminally ill patients to experiment with drugs not approved by the Food […]
It’s time for 11-month-old Charlie Gard to “be with the angels.”