end of life

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions

First Opinion By Joel B. Zivot and Ira Bedzow

What the death rattle and capital punishment have in common

First Opinion By Hannah Wunsch

That ‘damn machine’: the dark side of mechanical ventilators in the ICU

First Opinion By Haider J. Warraich

For-profit nursing homes and hospices are a bad deal for older Americans

Health By Alissa Ambrose

Picturing the ‘patience, love, and devotion’ of Alzheimer’s care

First Opinion By L.S. Dugdale

Rethinking Black Friday to include end-of-life conversations

First Opinion By Ravi Parikh, Christopher Manz and Mitesh Patel

A nudge helps doctors bring up end-of-life issues with their dying cancer patients

First Opinion By Charlotte Grinberg

It should be easy for people to receive end-of-life care at home. Why is it so hard?

Health By Eric Boodman

She’s spent decades caring for dying patients. When her mom’s time came, Covid-19 kept them apart

First Opinion By Richard E. Leiter

Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era

Health By Eric Boodman

A cancer patient reconsiders her end-of-life wishes, as Covid-19 brings mortality into sharper focus

First Opinion By Anna Gosline

The right words matter when talking about advance directives

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 Aimee Gindin

A daughter’s plea: Doctors must stop shirking palliative 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 Ira Byock and Eric Walsh

Hopewell House hospice has closed. You should care about that

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 Kenneth R. White

Talking about advance directives is a perfect holiday conversation

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’

First Opinion By Adam Hayden

For people with cancer, John McCain was a leader to the end

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