John L’Heureux on Death and Dignity
California’s Right-To-Die Law Still Has Some Kinks, Hearing Finds
By Sammy Caiola - capitol pubic radio - January 29, 2018 "Barbara Koenig, head of bioethics at the UC San Francisco, said bureaucracy can sometimes keep patients from exercising choice at life’s end. It’s a timing problem. If their disease…
What We Know About The People Who Have Used California’s Assisted Suicide Law
By Michelle Faust - laist June 25, 2018 "Dr. David Wallenstein, a palliative care doctor at UCLA Medical Center, said, "my impression is that people who tend to think in terms of aid-in-dying medications probably are people who really need…
I’m a doctor. Here’s what it’s like helping terminally ill patients end their lives
By Catherine Sonquist Forest - Vox, Sep 21, 2017 "Aid in dying has been legal in California for a year now. Many of my patients have been waiting for this." Read More
Why few California doctors are assisting deaths for terminally ill
By Tracy Seipel - Bay Area News Group September 2016 "It’s a scene being played out throughout California, as scores of terminally ill patients are learning to their dismay — and outrage — that the state’s new aid-in-dying law comes…
What I Learned Helping My Sister Use California’s New Law to End Her Life
First woman to take advantage of California's End of Life Option Act ? Opinion Piece by Kelly Davis - Voice of San Diego, August 9, 2016 Woman describes the experience of her sister, who had ALS, taking advantage of the…