Musings on Mortality: Ought we postpone our time to die?
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die." — Ecclesiastes 3...
Musings on Mortality: Death-phobic culture hinders end-of-life plans
My first experience with how unreasonable our culture is regarding death came after the birth of my irreversibly brain-damaged daughter...
Can We Ever Be Prepared to Die?
Ms. Alecson examines this contemporary and socially relevant discourse. Recorded in Palo Alto, CA on May 27, 2015. #medicalethics...
Selected Poetry: Dementia
the slideshow has slowed to a standstill one blurry frame remains its content always disheveled it is noted, the movement of drops Read...
Nursing in the 21st Century
A Thanatologist's Point of View I came to the field of thanatology through the door of medical ethics. I was always drawn to the study of...
Massachusetts needs Death with Dignity measure
The Death with Dignity Initiative is an act affirming a terminally ill patient’s right to compassionate dying. It encompasses the right...