End-of-life planning can be hampered by misconceptions − but the process is easier than you might think.
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Debate over Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying law shows the need to rethink the biological model of mental illness.
Someone who is terminally ill and wants to die faster does not ‘commit suicide,’ says this German palliative medicine physician. Words matter.
VILLA UKIKA — Just outside of Puerto Williams, the world’s southernmost city, lives an extraordinary woman. This far-flung outpost on Chile’s Tierra del Fuego, across the Straight of Magellan, is quiet literally at the end of the earth. And at 89, Cristina Calderón is nearing the end of her life — when she will take […]
In Suo-Oshima, nearly half the residents are over the age of 65. Increasingly, the city’s destiny looks to be a sign of what’s to come across a Japan that is aging far too fast.