A Facebook page chronicles the deaths of dozens of bike-riding workers who delivered food in New York City, lionizing them as fallen heroes.
Tag: Death and Dying
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.