Dr. Ira Byock, author of two books and numerous articles focused on the ethics and practice of hospice, palliative and end-of-life care, will speak at a Thursday lecture entitled “Conversations About ...

“As families, patients, and healthcare workers, we all face difficult choices — ethical guidance helps us make them with understanding and care” It is Ethics Awareness in the first week of November ...

As a review committee member, I assured foreign delegations that the Dutch model was a good one. That conclusion has become harder to support. In the U.S., assisted suicide has mostly been a hard sell ...

Dr. Michael Briggs, who has practiced pulmonology for more than 20 years, says there used to be almost no end-of-life ethical dilemmas when he began. In those days, medical professionals routinely did ...

For many people, death is an uncomfortable and anxiety-provoking topic. Conversations about dying may evoke fear, sadness, grief, and uncertainty. In some cultural and religious traditions, speaking ...

Katelyn John is majoring in neuroscience and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Any form of physician-assisted suicide, now known as ...

What happens after death is a big question but what happens before death needs to be legally bound. A Wilmette Professor Emeritus has launched a free website allowing users to stroll through a virtual ...

The idea of a death doula as a profession is newer. The Global Doula Project lists death doulas, or end-of-life doulas, as a ...

Whether or not humans are ready, AI predictions are quietly set to become part of end-of-life medical decisions. Could an artificial intelligence algorithm used for end-of-life care decisions predict ...

This study explores the experiences of bereaved lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) older women to understand perspectives regarding advance care planning communication between clinicians, patients, a ...