In 2015, California became the fifth state to legalize medical aid-in-dying. It provides that a patient whose physician determines they have l…
Local physicians are starting to discuss what the medical aid-in-dying law means to them, and the patients who ask for it.
There came a moment in the days leading up to Jennifer Glass’ slow and awful death Aug. 11 that she awoke from what’s called palliative sedation, feeling like she was drowning…
A bill that would have allowed terminally ill adults to request aid-in-dying medication from physicians stalled in the Assembly Health Committ…
Americans are a death-denying society, held in the sway of a medical-industrial complex that too often believes there is one more treatment op…