Dying patients usually have all the emotional problems they have always had. The image of death growing up in front of them does not obliterate everything that went before. Money problems have not ...

New York earlier this month became the 14th state with an aid-in-dying law on the books, thanks to a trend that is ushering in a new era for patient rights — and important ethical and legal questions ...

Ruth Parry, PhD, still remembers a conversation she mishandled as a junior National Health Service stroke rehabilitation physiotherapist many years ago. Ruth Parry, PhD “I was treating a man whose ...

Death is a fact of everyone’s life—not so much our own death, which is projected into some indefinite, unthinkable, future, but rather the death of others-- of those people we care about. Usually as ...