Tag: assisted suicide
Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person
My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.”
A Daughter’s Lament
A New York Times writer asks, “Could I Kill My Mother?”
Stop Blaming Elderly and Terminally Ill for Our Health-Care Spending Problems
There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget.
How Euthanasia Hurts Palliative Care
One doctor infamously said he didn’t need palliative care when he had euthanasia.
“Zero Suicide” Project Forgets about Assisted Suicide
It rarely fails. I see a news story lauding a suicide-prevention program. But then I check it out.