end of life

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 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 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

First Opinion By Tara Soumerai

An opioid shortage? It’s real and could harm cancer patients

Endnotes By Bob Tedeschi

With the help of a loved one, a family finds what is essential in the end

Health By Megha Satyanarayana

Long miles, lonely roads: In rural Texas, dying at home means little is easy

Politics By Erin Mershon

How the ‘right-to-try’ movement muscled its way into Washington

First Opinion By Roger Kligler

I’m a doctor with end-stage cancer. I support medical aid in dying