Dear Judy
You’ll think this strange. I’m in good health give or take a little PMS. My husband, though, had testicular cancer in his early 20’s. He’s okay, has been for 24 long years, but any mention of disease or the even bigger D really spooks him.
And I guess maybe I think about his former condition and [...]
“Hospice nurses are often worried that someone who willingly hastens his own death is really committing suicide,” Judith Schwarz says impatiently. She is a registered nurse herself, who has done a qualitative study on what it’s like for nurses to be asked by patients for assistance in dying.
Schwartz, who also works for CompassionandChoices.org, has spent a lot [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009