Almost two years ago, I visited lifelong Staten Islander Brian Moffett at a specialized care facility in Manhattan. Brian had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that ...

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed into law a measure that would allow doctors to help terminally ill people end their lives after the controversial bill barely cleared the Senate during ...

It was more than a year ago that MPs first gave their backing to proposed legislation which would introduce assisted dying in England and Wales, in an historic House of Commons vote. In its current ...

A while back, I posted a piece discussing research on people’s thoughts and feelings about death and dying, and I was interviewed for a magazine. Here is the transcript of the interview. First of all, ...

Lai Hang had four months to live and no time to waste. On the day in 2015 when she heard her cancer prognosis, she filled out the paperwork and began the 10-day waiting period to buy a handgun. Then ...

We were overwhelmed by the response to our annual Letters to Santa feature, with more than 1,250 letters submitted this year. Due ...