Lauren Hill’s inspiring story touched the hearts of countless people around the world this year...
End of Life
Hospice and Palliative Care: Ethical Concerns
Most people are familiar with hospice care, but relatively unfamiliar with palliative care, a more...
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...