Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay still atop a folding table that was dressed as a bed, complaining that her ...

We must respect human life from birth to natural death. That means more than contriving cumbersome laws to abet assisted ...

When my siblings and I decided to put our father in hospice care at his home in the spring of 2021, his Alzheimer’s was near end-stage. He could barely get out of bed or dress or feed himself. Hospice ...

IN 2008, a group of palliative care researchers noted that demographic trends such as the “baby boomer” generation and ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul will allow medically assisted suicide in New York, a measure meant to ease the suffering of those who are terminally ill, if more safeguards are added to prevent exploitation. New ...

Primary care professionals should play a proactive role in caring for patients at the end of life, according to family medicine specialists at the National Congress of the Spanish Society of Family ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to sign the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law marks a significant moment for New York. It follows years of serious, often deeply personal deliberation by legislators, ...

With hospitals and health systems looking for better ways to support patients with serious illness, a new resource is showing up as an addition to inpatient care teams: death doulas. Also known as end ...

Some will choose to pursue as many medical interventions as possible to prolong their existence. Some will instead choose gentle, palliative care. Some will choose medical aid in dying to spare ...

A hospice doctor who oversees the care of terminally ill patients in their final moments has detailed exactly what happens to the body when we're dying. Death is usually marked when a patient's heart ...