As part of an ongoing national conversation about the ethics of allowing terminally ill patients to die on their own terms, state legislators considered a bill about physician-assisted suicide at a Tuesday...
A brave 29-year-old woman ended her own life on Saturday in her Oregon home. She was not suicidal; she had a terminal illness. In January, Brittany Maynard received a diagnosis of likely stage 4 glioblastoma,...
Physician-assisted suicide failed to pass on the Massachusetts ballot by a narrow margin that was too close to call in the early morning hours on Wednesday.
Question 2, known as the Massachusetts Death...
To the Editor:
I am writing in regards to Dr. Ashur’s letter published in the Oct. 22 issue of The Daily Free Press distributed at Boston University. In response to her opposition to Question 2, I counter...
To the Editor:
“I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel.” This is an excerpt from The Hippocratic Oath – the oath that guides my practice as a physician....
