As a review committee member, I assured foreign delegations that the Dutch model was a good one. That conclusion has become harder to support. In the U.S., assisted suicide has mostly been a hard sell ...

“As families, patients, and healthcare workers, we all face difficult choices — ethical guidance helps us make them with understanding and care” It is Ethics Awareness in the first week of November ...

Katelyn John is majoring in neuroscience and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Any form of physician-assisted suicide, now known as ...

Take control of your future by integrating end-of-life care planning. Learn how to ensure your wishes are respected and ...

For many people, death is an uncomfortable and anxiety-provoking topic. Conversations about dying may evoke fear, sadness, grief, and uncertainty. In some cultural and religious traditions, speaking ...

Author: Pierre Mallia, Publisher Kite Group, 2025 I am extremely thankful to Professor Pierre Mallia for asking me to write an introduction to his collection of essays entitled The ...

The cover feature on correcting hospice misconceptions in this seasonal issue of CURE by Senior Editor Alex Biese elegantly ...

Medicare recognizes the importance of end-of-life planning and what you’d like your future care to look like. Its advance care planning benefit is part of your annual wellness appointment. During your ...

Goals-of-care conversations can help clinicians align treatment with patient preferences. Documenting those discussions can ...

Medicare acknowledges end-of-life planning as an important part of your healthcare. It has an “advance care planning” benefit, which a person can include as part of their annual wellness visit.