Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians need quality, accessible palliative care, not a quick end to life
Tag: Palliative care
Why Canadians need to have end of life conversations
Reading Time: 3 minutes People who have end of life conversations with their doctors and family members are much more likely to be satisfied with their care
Why patients at the end of life may not be receiving the best care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Providing comfort care should be the first priority for those nearing the end
Assisted suicide raises troubling questions
Reading Time: 3 minutes For anyone wondering why physician-hastened death makes disabled people feel vulnerable, wonder no more
Why we all need to have end of life conversations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Discussing death allows us to make plans and to make our wishes known to loved ones.
Assisted suicide not the only response to suffering
Reading Time: 4 minutes It is false to equate suffering arising from disease, illness or disability with a loss of dignity
Canadians now have the human right to be killed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Supreme Court’s assisted-suicide decision a perversion of human rights
It’s time to talk about end of life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most of us do not have the means of providing palliative care for our loved ones
Dying badly a fact of life in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes A lack of proper palliative care could lead to increases in requests for assisted suicides