Topic: Death And Dying
Band to pay for grief counseling for fans who witnessed apparent suicide at Calif. concertThe Swell Season is paying for grief counseling sessions for hundreds of music fans who watched in horror as a man jumped to his death during the band's ...
The Marshall Islands region of Ebeye, which has the unflattering reputation as the "slum of the Pacific" has now been damned in a US Army report as a health threat to residents. The collapsing infrastructure, including a sewerage system that has not ...
In a story June 25 about a right-to-die case, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Germany's top criminal court legalized assisted suicide. The court didn't rule on the issue of assisted suicide. The case involved a woman in a vegetative coma who ...
A campaign to give elderly Netherlands residents the right to assisted suicide has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, enough to force a parliamentary debate on the matter. Though the idea faces a host of ethical and practical challenges, the campaign is noteworthy ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Videos that depict different options for end-of-life care may help terminally ill cancer patients decide on what they want, a new study suggests. Research shows that only a minority of cancer patients complete documents on advance care ...
The eulogies, the songs, the crying and the hugging all make David Tseng's funeral virtually indistinguishable from any other such rite on Taiwan -- except he is still alive. Tseng is only 25 but he is wheelchair-bound and in the terminal stage ...
In a white-walled hospital room, pancreatic cancer slowly drained all the life that remained in Carolyn. There was nothing more to do for this 62-year-old woman — no oxygen or other life support, just a morphine drip to keep her as comfortable ...
South Korea's highest court ordered a hospital to heed a family's request to suspend life support for a 76-year-old woman in a coma, a landmark ruling that heralded a shift in South Korean attitudes on death. Societal mores and laws in the ...
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An Alabama hospice company that cares for terminally ill patients in 15 states said it will pay $24.7 million to settle allegations that it submitted false reimbursement claims to the federal government. The privately owned SouthernCare Inc. said Thursday it reached the ...