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 Robert Truog New guidelines on severe brain injury complicate already difficult decisions
First Opinion By Adam Philip Stern ‘The most peaceful sleep’: Cancer is nudging me to picture dying in a new way
First Opinion By Jay Baruch When death is imminent, end-of-life care decisions sometimes go out the window
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
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
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 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 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