Compassion and Choices

End of Life Consultations: Adults Only

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


Barbara Coombs Lee

Some leaders prefer to confine us in childhood, so we need never acknowledge, grieve over or plan for our own deaths. A childish approach to end-of-life issues permeated the August recess.

Linda Fleming: Wash. State Suicide Law Sees First Death

AP | RACHEL LA CORTE | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics


OLYMPIA, Wash. — A 66-year-old woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to die under Washington state's new assisted suicide law, ...