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 ...

Community is a nurse-led initiative in UCLA’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit that supports patients, their families and unit staff during the dying process. It gives nursing staff tools to care ...

Columbia physician warns medical assistance in dying laws spreading across the United States could create a slippery slope ...

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 ...

When Kristina Newport, MD, was a first-year medical resident doing a night shift at a small veterans’ hospital, one of her patients, who was very sick with multiple chronic diseases, made the decision ...

End-of-life medical care poses many dilemmas for hematologists as they consider treatment for their dying patients. Where do the wishes of patients and their loved ones fit in? Is home care the best ...

When I was an oncology nurse, a 44-year-old patient named Madeline forever changed my perception of death. She had gallbladder cancer and one day broke her hip. This sent her to the hospital, ...

Separate bills to let terminally ill people end their life are being considered at Westminster and in Scotland.

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 ...