How do you talk to someone about their end of life care? That is the recurring question people have asked me since release of my book, A Better Way of Dying, last month. It is usually asked by a relative of someone whose health is failing, who's heading down that...

In my 30 years as an Emergency Room physician, I have watched many people die. I've learned from them that the modern American death is often a chronic illness, spanning some five to 10 years, in which a person slowly looses their mobility, their independence, their ability to perform basic...