Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Not Progressive
"Right to die" is just a slogan. No civil right to commit suicide exists in any social compact. More »
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Ira Byock is director of palliative care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and author of The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life.
"Right to die" is just a slogan. No civil right to commit suicide exists in any social compact. More »
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Our cultural tendency is to avoid serious conversations about end of life, and mortality has become politically polarized, but the longer we wait, the harder it will be to avoid disaster. More »
Though death is the most inevitable fact of life, our social systems are broken when it comes to caring for people with advanced illnesses. More »
There is surprisingly little disagreement about what constitutes good care at the end of life, but we still can't seem to fix any of our problems. More »
