Medical Futility Blog

Here is a most welcome editorial in the December 2025 Critical Care Medicine  complimenting our work on the Society of Critical Care Medicin...

This 45-minute documentary film  follows 59-year-old Uwe Korous as he hastens his death through VSED to avoid the end-stages of ALS. The ent...

As of December 1, 2025,   Arthur Caplan  stepped down from his role as Director of the Division of Medical Ethics after 13 years of exceptio...

Join me on January 18, 2026, when I present to the Hemlock Society of San Diego:  New & Emerging Right to Die Options - 12 Ways to Avoid...

Here is a wonderful summary of my recent Annual Krug Lecture in Biomedical Ethics at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine ...

I am delighted to discuss organ donation from unrepresented patients at today's Uniform Law Commission meeting. A handout of my slides i...

Both the New York Senate and Assembly passed the  New York Medical Aid in Dying Act  months ago. I discuss the bill in this video. We have ...

At the upcoming Tokyo General Assembly, the World Federation of Right to Die Societies will again present awards recognizing outstanding wor...

This looks like a most engaging theater experience in the ACT.  Enter the council, hear the experts, make your judgement. Rachel Gärtner ha...

This week's conference of the Korean Society for Medical Ethics includes many sessions on end-of-life issues, including one on VSED.  

The Swiss assisted dying organization DIGNITAS reports the death  of its founder Ludwig A. Minelli. Apart from DIGNITAS, Minelli advanced hu...

Health Canada has published its 6th annual report on MAID in Canada . It details 22,535 reports of MAID requests in 2024. Of these, 16,499 p...

A powerful new end-of-life film is streaming on a number of platforms:  The Last Ecstatic Days . The film goes way beyond the dying process ...

The second of four articles from our Society of Critical Care Medicine is Contestation of Pediatric Bran Death Task Force is  now available ...