George Lundberg, MD said that “every American deserves the right to choose to have a death with dignity and as pain-free as medical science and practice can provide. To achieve that, patients and physicians must discuss the options for managing an upcoming death.” Atul Gawande, MD wrote ...
If private property had found its way back into the afterlife, the twentieth century would bring one more profound shift in the uneasy relation between the living and the dead, begun in the United States and soon spreading across Europe. It was the death granted us by the beginnings of moder...