When medical professionals note a patient’s temperature dropping in the final hours of life, they’re witnessing one of the most reliable biological signals of approaching death. This temperature ...

A comprehensive study of nearly 6,000 patients receiving at-home palliative care found that respite care services more than double the likelihood of elderly patients dying at home rather than in ...

Terminally ill patients deserve to have the moral freedom to escape their suffering on their own timeline. As a professor, now retired, of Christian ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary, I read your ...

The new assisted dying bill could pressure elderly people into dying earlier in order to avoid passing on large tax bills to their families, experts have warned. Under current rules, if someone dies ...