Tag: Medically Assisted Dying
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Effervesce
Catalina Florina Florescu Hoboken, New Jersey, United States Note: Scroll to continue the comic CATALINA FLORINA FLORESCU holds a Ph.D. in Medical Humanities from Purdue University. She is the curator of the New Plays Festival at JCTC. Her next and last book is under contract with Routledge, Female Playwrights Intersectionality in Contemporary Romanian…
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Going boldly into the night: A reflection on “death with dignity”
Lenore M. MontanaroNorth Kingstown, Rhode Island Doctors should minimize one’s suffering at death and uphold the patient’s right to bodily integrity and self-determination. If someone with decisional capacity is diagnosed with a terminal illness such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (“Lou Gehrig’s disease”), Alzheimer’s Disease, or Multiple Sclerosis, to list a few, especially if the diseases…