Medical Futility Blog

I'm excited to participate in the 2nd Annual End of Life Options Colorado Conference , Empowering End of Life Care: Medical Aid in Dying...

Trends in deceased donation have shown a rapidly increasing percentage of deceased donation comes after determination of death by circulator...

No U.S. jurisdiction that authorized medical aid in dying (MAID) ever repealed that authorization. But there have been significant efforts t...

The title of  this legal newspaper article says it all: Regulatory Uncertainty Ahead For Organ Transplant System ."  The status of cur...

The South Korea National Agency for Management of Life-sustaining Treatment reports that o ver 3 million Koreans have opted out of life-sus...

I have been fortunate to participate several times in Emory's  Healthcare Ethics Consortium Annual Conference. This  year's conferen...

This one-hour video of Breaking the Deadlock raises compelling arguments concerning abortion and MAID. This PBS series encourages dialogue,...

A new resource is now available. Talk VSED  is a UK-based, citizen-led working group consisting of family members of those who have chosen v...

Here are highlights of the latest legal developments regarding end-of-life decision making. We cover these in the first of two semi-annual 2...

For decades, studies have shown that television portrayals of CPR are unrealistic and may impede code status discussions. While The Pitt  do...

It was gratifying to see over 500 registered for my recent presentation "New and Emerging Right to Die Options: Twelve Ways to Avoid La...

Rhode Island attorney and Senator Matthew L. LaMountain has just introduced S.B. 2115 . This bill would require "all hospitals in Rhode...

The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) has just published a press release  stating that it "is alarmed that, for the...

Here are some of the presentations that I plan to make in 2026.  Expand Right to Die Options for Older Americans: Twelve Ways to Avoid Late-...

Wayne Sumner offers a devastating response to MAID critics in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.  He distinguishes between two different ki...

Winel Andrea George has been a Florida R.N.  since 2017 . But when working at Palm Garden of Aventura on November 12, 2024, George initiated...

The Final Exit Network advises people on how they can hasten death through insert has asphyxiation. But FEN Exit Guides do not physically he...

It was such a pleasure to extrapolate all my work (from 2007-2025) on medical futility in the ICU over to the mental health clinic. Working...

Here is  a link to free reprints of my recent article - "Brain Death: Five Mandates to Continue Technologic Support After Death." ...

The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California is developing five new patient-centered decision aids to support shared decision making d...