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Let’s Talk About Palliative Sedation
A quiet right worth knowing about.
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Ladies, Age is Our Superpower
The liberation of getting older and bolder.
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Death Awareness and Acceptance
As a resistance to authoritarianism.
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Needed: Death Doulas for Children
How is the end-of-life experience different for younger people?
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Make Choices Before Cognitive Decline Begins
Let's face the fact that statistically such a condition can happen to us.
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Create Advance Care Directives Now
And choose a health care proxy, too!
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Transitioning From Independent to Assisted Living
It's a death of sorts.
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Medical Aid in Dying in Illinois
Why we need it, now.
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The “Right to Try” Act: In Principle and Practice
Does it cover the right of dying people to try psychedelics?
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Final Exit Network: Ethics and End-of-Life
The concept of choice and options we face at the end of our journey.
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How Will We Die in the Future?
For many of us, we will die the way we live…in whatever manner we choose.
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Patient-Centered Care Through A Bill of Rights
Recognize your agency and feel empowered to get the treatment you deserve.
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