First Opinion By Jay Baruch When death is imminent, end-of-life care decisions sometimes go out the window
First Opinion By Robert Truog New guidelines on severe brain injury complicate already difficult decisions
Health By Bob Tedeschi Doctors want to give their cancer patients every chance. But are they pushing off hard talks too long?
Health By Eric Boodman She’s spent decades caring for dying patients. When her mom’s time came, Covid-19 kept them apart
Health By Eric Boodman A cancer patient reconsiders her end-of-life wishes, as Covid-19 brings mortality into sharper focus
First Opinion By Angelo Volandes, Aretha Delight Davis, and Ira Byock While social distancing, do your other patriotic duty: have The Conversation about serious illness care
First Opinion By Mackenzie Graham, Adrian M. Owen, and Charles Weijer Armchair philosophizing doesn’t help conscious patients in vegetative states
First Opinion By Jacob M. Appel Some people in persistent vegetative states have working minds. Does keeping them in limbo amount to torture?
First Opinion By Sarah H. Cross and Haider J. Warraich More Americans are dying at home. Is that a good thing?
First Opinion By Ira Byock and Eric Walsh Hopewell House hospice has closed. You should care about that
First Opinion By Adam Philip Stern ‘The most peaceful sleep’: Cancer is nudging me to picture dying in a new way
First Opinion By Colleen M. Farrell As a doctor in the ICU, I sometimes feel helpless. Poetry provides solace
In the Lab By Sharon Begley The pigs were dead. But four hours later, scientists restored cellular functions in their brains
Politics By Nicholas Florko A year after Trump touted ‘right to try,’ patients still aren’t getting treatment
First Opinion By LaVarne A. Burton States are protecting living organ donors. Congress should follow suit
First Opinion By Joanne M. Chiedi Fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare hospice program is ‘repellent’
Health By Orly Nadell Farber Physicians’ beliefs may override cancer patients’ wishes for end-of-life care, study finds
Health By Orly Nadell Farber Are we spending too much on the dying? New research challenges this widely held view
Health By Megha Satyanarayana Long miles, lonely roads: In rural Texas, dying at home means little is easy