end of life

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The faces of Covid at 1 million deaths and counting

First Opinion Shoshana Ungerleider

One million reasons to reimagine end-of-life care

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

First Opinion Krista Lyn Harrison, Meredith Greene and Anthony Galanos

We all need help working through grief and hardship

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

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

First Opinion Joel B. Zivot and Ira Bedzow

What the death rattle and capital punishment have in common

Health Alissa Ambrose

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

First Opinion L.S. Dugdale

Rethinking Black Friday to include end-of-life conversations

First Opinion Ravi Parikh, Christopher Manz and Mitesh Patel

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

First Opinion Charlotte Grinberg

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

Health Eric Boodman

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

First Opinion Richard E. Leiter

Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era

Health Eric Boodman

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

First Opinion Anna Gosline

The right words matter when talking about advance directives

First Opinion 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 Aimee Gindin

A daughter’s plea: Doctors must stop shirking palliative care

First Opinion Mackenzie Graham, Adrian M. Owen and Charles Weijer

Armchair philosophizing doesn’t help conscious patients in vegetative states

First Opinion Sarah H. Cross and Haider J. Warraich

More Americans are dying at home. Is that a good thing?

First Opinion Ira Byock and Eric Walsh

Hopewell House hospice has closed. You should care about that

First Opinion Adam Philip Stern

‘The most peaceful sleep’: Cancer is nudging me to picture dying in a new way

In the Lab Sharon Begley

The pigs were dead. But four hours later, scientists restored cellular functions in their brains

Politics Nicholas Florko

A year after Trump touted ‘right to try,’ patients still aren’t getting treatment

First Opinion Kenneth R. White

Talking about advance directives is a perfect holiday conversation

First Opinion LaVarne A. Burton

States are protecting living organ donors. Congress should follow suit

First Opinion Joanne M. Chiedi

Fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare hospice program is ‘repellent’