When I was 19 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound of my baby revealed markers for a condition...
End of Life
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...
Transforming today’s nursing homes
Is it possible to celebrate life when you are elderly, frail, and living in a nursing home? Staff...
With Jesus and my son in the garden of Gethsemane
On the night He was betrayed, Jesus went into the garden of Gethsemane and began the climactic...
The truth about death panels
When Sarah Palin predicted “death panels” were coming under Obamacare, she was sharply criticized...
The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation: A healing mission for...
From Terri’s Schiavo’s collapse on February 25, 1990 to her hastened death on March 31, 2005...