When, how, and where dying with dignity can take place, with options and implications for individuals, families, and society.

It is long overdue for state legislatures and state courts across the country to recognize, by statute and under state constitutions, a right to death with dignity. The compelling story of 29-year-old ...

As the executive director of the York Community Service Association, Michelle Surdoval helped establish a death cafe in York so people could have conversations about death. She later found the ...

In 2008, the state legislature of Washington passed what was called the Death with Dignity Act, a law that legalized physician assisted suicide. Under the law, terminally ill patients (predicted to ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- "Suffering is not worthless, and our lives are not our own to take." With those words published in an online essay, Catholic seminarian Philip Johnson places himself in the middle of ...

On November 1, Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old Californian with terminal brain cancer, died with dignity at her home in Portland, Oregon, surrounded by her family. I never met Maynard, but like ...