Oct 20, 2015
(By Shoshana Ungerleider, October 19, 2015, Vox) It wasn’t until just before graduation that we talked about what to do when a patient is dying. A single three-hour seminar with a group of specialists from the palliative care service; at least it was mandatory....Oct 11, 2015
(The Nation, By Katherine Stewart, October 8, 2015) Americans have started thinking seriously about how to die. This past Monday, October 5, California became the fifth state to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to patients with terminal illnesses, joining...Oct 8, 2015
(October 7, 2015, NPR) The “death-with-dignity” movement took a giant step forward this week, with 38 million people coming under its umbrella in a single swoop when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act on Monday. But the law still...Oct 5, 2015
(The New York Times, By The Associate Press, October 5, 2015) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday allowing terminally ill people in the nation’s most populous state to take their own lives, saying the emotionally charged bill forced...Sep 29, 2015
(By Amy Berman, September 28, 2015, The Washington Post) To: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: News reports say you will soon make a final decision about paying doctors and other providers who talk to their patients about end-of-life planning, I have a...Sep 24, 2015
(By Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2015) Dear Gov. Brown: Three years ago, my father died in a fairly typical manner. His heart and his body had given out, he could barely move, he couldn’t feed himself and he was in diapers. He was in a bit of...Sep 22, 2015
(The New York Times, By The Editorial Board, September 22, 2015) Gov. Jerry Brown of California is hearing plenty from opponentsand supporters of a bill state lawmakers passed earlier this month that would allow some terminally ill patients to hasten their death....Sep 17, 2015
(The New York Times, September 16, 2015, By Haider Javed Warraich) Before I was an intern standing in the middle of the night over a pale, motionless woman about to certify her death, I had a very different vision of what a person’s final moment would be like. Like...Sep 9, 2015
(Los Angeles Times, By Patrick McGreevy, September 9, 2015) The state Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow California physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, sending the proposal to the Senate, which had previously...Sep 2, 2015
(By Patrick McGreevy, September 1, 2015, Los Angeles Times) A bill allowing physicians in California to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to hasten the death of the terminally ill passed a key milestone Tuesday when it was approved by its first committee in the state...