When the end draws near, Dr. Roger Kligler, a retired physician with incurable, metastatic prostate cancer, wants the option to use a lethal prescription to ...
Read More »Aid-in-Dying Laws Don’t Guarantee That Patients Can Choose To Die
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News In the seven months since California’s aid-in-dying law took effect, Dr. Lonny Shavelson has helped nearly two dozen terminally ill ...
Read More »End-of-Life Laws Only Accentuate Need For Palliative Care, Providers Say
LOS ANGELES — More times than she can count, Dr. Carin van Zyl has heard terminally ill patients beg to die. They tell her they can’t ...
Read More »These Doctors Want A Choice In How They Die
SAN FRANCISCO — Dan Swangard knows what death looks like. As a physician, he has seen patients die in hospitals, hooked to morphine drips and ...
Read More »Doctors and Cancer Patients Sue California for Right to Die
A group of cancer patients filed a lawsuit Wednesday in California seeking to overturn a law that prosecutes physicians who prescribe end-of-life medication to mentally ...
Read More »Most Americans Agree With Right-to-Die Movement
(HealthDay News) — Already-strong public support for right-to-die legislation has grown even stronger in the days since the planned death of 29-year-old brain cancer patient ...
Read More »Brittany Maynard, Terminal Cancer Patient, Wants National Death With Dignity Act (VIDEO)
Terminally ill 29-year-old Brittany Maynard has released a new video as part of her joint campaign with Compassion & Choices to expand access to death with dignity ...
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