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After cancer diagnosis, a neurosurgeon sees life, death and his career in a new way

1/30/23 – NPR News, Fresh Air, Terry Gross: After cancer diagnosis, a neurosurgeon view life, death, career, and end of life decision-making in a new

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March 3, 2023

Lauren Book files ‘Death with Dignity Act’ allowing terminally ill people to self-euthanize

2/16/23 – Florida Politics, Senator files Death with Dignity Act in Florida less than a month after a Daytona woman shot and killed her terminally

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March 3, 2023

AJFF Film Examines Right to Die Issues

2/16/23 – Atlanta Jewish Times, Assisted dying as a family concern is the subject of a new French film recently shown at the Atlanta Jewish

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March 2, 2023

‘Death with dignity’: Florida non-profit calls for medical aid in dying law

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A Florida non-profit organization is pushing for a law to allow people with terminal illnesses to die on their own terms.

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January 24, 2023

A Son’s Decision to Help His Father Die by VSED, a method protected by a Supreme Court Ruling

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November 30, 2022

I went from being a labor-and-delivery nurse to a death doula. I help people who want to die on their own terms by refusing food and water.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nancy Simmers. It has been edited for length and clarity. Most people are taken aback when

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November 15, 2022

Slippery Slope Or Wise Demise? The Pros And Cons Of Medically Assisted Dying

This is the second part of an article on the state of assisted dying around the world. Read Part 1, A Designed Death – Where

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November 1, 2022

Barbara Coombs Lee and Paul Smith: Race and culture still matter 50 years after Tuskegee syphilis study

Fifty years ago, an Associated Press reporter uncovered the infamous “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.” Tragically, since the physicians deliberately withheld treatment, 28

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October 13, 2022

Philadelphia Inquirer, Why don’t people of color receive better end of life care?

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September 22, 2022

Georgia senior care facilities fumble do-not-resuscitate orders

In April 2018, Charles Milne picked up the phone to hear that his 73-year-old sister was struggling for her life. A nurse from her Marietta-based

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September 21, 2022
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