My sister and I had to make decisions that determined the course of my parents’ final hours. This important end-of-life document could have guided us ...

The Oregon Legislature has passed a bill that essentially updates the state's law regarding advance directives, the documents in which people specify what medical actions should be taken on their ...

Treading into ethically and legally uncertain territory, a New York end-of-life agency has approved a new document that lets people stipulate in advance that they don’t want food or water if they ...

Dear Doctor: I recently read about advance directives that deal only with dementia. Is there some benefit to those over the more traditional directives? If so, how do I go about creating one? Dear ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

ATLANTA, GA — Despite the increasing number of Americans with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), a new study finds that only about one in every three ICD patients has an advance ...

Sometimes, in the face of the complexities of life, we rely on hypotheticals to aid us in decisions concerning the future. This is no less the case when a patient is deciding about their future care ...

As a nurse, Kim Von Asten of Dousman, Wis., knows it’s important to document how you want to be cared for at the end of your life, or when you can no longer speak for yourself because of a major ...

MEDFORD, Ore. — Bill Harris is blunt: For more than a year, he has been trying to help his wife die. The 75-year-old retired tech worker says it’s his duty to Nora Harris, his spouse of nearly four ...

I recently read about advance directives that deal only with dementia. Is there some benefit to those over the more traditional directives? If so, how do I go about creating one? Most of us are ...

Dear Doctor: I recently read about advance directives that deal only with dementia. Is there some benefit to those over the more traditional directives? If so, how do I go about creating one? Dear ...