New York Food Delivery Workers, Overlooked in Life, Are Honored in Death A Facebook page chronicles the deaths of dozens of bike-riding workers who delivered food in New York City, lionizing them as fallen heroes.
Should Palliative Psychiatry Be Considered for Anorexia? Treatment wasn’t helping her anorexia, so doctors allowed her to stop — no matter the consequences. But is a “palliative” approach to mental illness really ethical?
I Promised My Sister I Would Write About How She Chose to Die Medical aid in dying gave my sister a choice about how her life ended.
In the Shelter of a Weeping Beech The tree was supposed to be strong and whole, to stand for my mother in her absence. Now it was just another broken thing.
A Rejected A.L.S. Drug Made Me Rethink the Role of Hope in Medicine An A.L.S. drug rejected by the F.D.A. made me rethink how doctors should give hope to patients.