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Brittany Lauren Maynard (November 19, 1984 – November 1, 2014) was an American activist with terminal cancer who decided that she would end her own life "when the time seemed right." She was an advocate for the legalization of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. [4] [5]
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour is a 2019 memoir written by Sunita Puri, a palliative care physician who chronicles her experiences with helping terminally-ill patients and their family members make end-of-life decisions. [1] She further explores the dichotomy between modern medicine and palliative care. [2]
The Murdoch Mysteries episode "A Most Surprising Bond" is loosely based on the Ramirez case, using the DMSO hypothesis to explain how a hospital patient's blood is causing those around her to fall ill. Gloria Ramirez's story also played a part in inspiring the 1995 episode "Stink Bomb" of the three-part film anthology Memories by Katsuhiro ...
A vote for 'honesty, decency and integrity' On Monday morning, the first day of absentee voting in Mississippi, Crews met with the hospice nurse who makes a weekly visit to her home.
Concerned about the future of the country, she added one other thing to her final to-do list. She wanted to be ready when early and absentee ballot voting started, which was last week in a handful ...
A proposal to legalise assisted dying in some circumstances faces its first vote in the Commons on Friday.
End Game is a 2018 American short documentary film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman [1] about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital meeting medical practitioners seeking to change the perception around life and death. [2] [3] [4] The film was executive produced by Steven Ungerleider and Shoshana R. Ungerleider. [5] It was ...
Anne Shaw from Leeds had been given the all-clear before her cancer came back and eventually spread to her bowel.