We are so very grateful to Elaine Fong and her family for their support of End of Life Washington and were privileged, in turn, to support their mother to access Death with Dignity. Please note that the medical protocol she mentions has been amended so that a burning...
by Sara Schilling, Tri-City Herald Phillip Estes lived a long, fulfilling life. A Harvard-trained physicist, his work took him around the country — ultimately to the Tri-Cities and the Hanford nuclear reservation. He and his wife, Judith, were happily married for 54...
by JoNel Aleccia, for NPR Health Shots Treading into ethically and legally uncertain territory, a New York end-of-life agency has approved a new document that lets people stipulate in advance that they don’t want food or water if they develop severe dementia....
by Samantha Wohlfeil, the Inlander On a cold winter morning, Phil Estes gets into the private ambulance he’s hailed for the more than two-hour journey to Spokane, all 99 pounds of the former Hanford engineer clinging to his frail 6-foot-tall frame as his gurney...
From Death With Dignity, deathwithdignity.org: As our partner organization, End of Life Washington gears up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Washington Death with Dignity Act next November, EOLWA Executive Director Sally McLaughlin is preparing for the next 10...
op-ed from The Seattle Times, November 17th, 2017 by Robert A. Free After moving my sister to a memory care home in Oregon following her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, I began exploring legal options of pursuing death with dignity if I am confronted with dementia. I don’t...
by JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News People who abhor the thought of being kept alive with feeding tubes or other types of artificial nutrition and hydration have, for years, had a way out. They could document their wishes to halt such interventions — and have them...
From our friends at End of Life Choices New York: “The American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Center for Ethics and Human Rights recently released a new position statement on Nutrition and Hydration at the End of Life. In this position statement and its...
by JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Bill Harris is blunt: For more than a year, he has been trying to help his wife die. The 75-year-old retired tech worker says it’s his duty to Nora Harris, his spouse of nearly four decades, who was diagnosed with early-onset...
