For many people, death is an uncomfortable and anxiety-provoking topic. Conversations about dying may evoke fear, sadness, grief, and uncertainty. In some cultural and religious traditions, speaking ...

A new survey revealed that most doctors would decline aggressive treatments, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), ventilation, or tube feeding for themselves if faced with advanced cancer or ...

When we let subscribers to our weekday texts know that we were about to begin a yearlong series on end-of-life decisions, and issues, more than 160 responded, most with heartfelt accounts of their own ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In a growing number of states, terminally ill patients now have a legal option that would have been unthinkable to many Americans a generation ago: a doctor’s prescription that ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at how Americans are thinking about aging and how things are going for adults ages 65 and older. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the ...

March 31, 2026, marks 50 years since a landmark decision that shapes American patients' rights every day: the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had suffered an ...

As an emergency medicine physician, Viktoria Koskenoja has seen families struggle with deciding how to care for loved ones incapacitated by illness or injury. Those encounters drove her to draft an ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. I don’t like thinking about my inevitable death, much less spending time planning for it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "End-of-life decisions are profoundly personal," says ...