Will Physician-Assisted Suicide Lead To Rational Suicide?
Is physician-assisted dying/suicide just the first step onto the slippery slope of normalizing suicide?
Death Doulas Add To Dying Well Initiatives
An overwhelming 80% of Americans want to die at home but the reality is that 60% die in the hospital and another 20% die in a nursing home.
Maine Advances Physician-Assisted Suicide Law
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF The Maine Senate has given preliminary approval to a controversial bill that would allow physicians to prescribe terminally ill adults life-ending drugs. Under the proposal, an individual with a life-expectancy of six months or less would follow a procedure that includes a second opinion by a consulting physician, along with one […]
Hospice In The Nursing Home
Knowing the Right Question to Ask BY SUSAN M. MATHEWS, PhD, RN, MSBE The call from the nursing home came at 8 on Wednesday morning. Mom was not getting up for breakfast. Mom was always dressed, with make-up on by 6:30. I told the caller I had a 2-hour drive but was leaving immediately. When […]
New Mexico Considers Physician-Assisted Suicide Measure
BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmedia.org New Mexico could soon join a handful of states allowing physician-assisted suicide. A controversial measure that would allow terminally ill New Mexicans to end their lives with doctor-prescribed drugs passed its final House committee Wednesday. It’s now headed to the House floor, the Albuquerque Journal reports. House Bill 90, also known […]