Most people are familiar with hospice care, but relatively unfamiliar with palliative care, a more...
End of Life
A gift of 53 minutes
When Amy and James Fornshell of the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth, Minnesota, learned in March...
A tale of two suicides: Brittany Maynard and my daughter
Brittany Maynard, a beautiful 29-year-old woman diagnosed with a lethal brain tumor, announced in...
Get every minute of life God has planned for you
Earlier this year, we received a letter from one of American Life League’s supporters. She wrote...
Peter’s Story
When I was 19 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound of my baby revealed markers for a condition...
The POLST form: You could be signing your life away
The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is fast becoming a standard...
Only a month to live
Choosing to die (as opposed to accepting the inevitability of death) cheats oneself of the closing...
The shoe on the other foot
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion...
What the dying can teach us
Editor’s note: This eloquent testimony to the value and meaning of suffering and death also reminds...
Today’s ‘palliative care’ disrespects the natural law
The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment...