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This Couple Died By Assisted Suicide Together. Here’s Their Story

By JoNel Aleccia / Kaiser Health News

Why More Older Americans Are Suffering From Fatal Falls

By Josh Sanburn

How Terri Schiavo Shaped the Right-to-Die Movement

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Why Dying Is Easier for Doctors

For all the effort they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with their own death

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Why Your Doctor Probably Has a "Do Not Resuscitate" Order

Doctors know that aggressive end of life care can be a waste of money—and painful. Yet that's exactly what happens when Americans die

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The New American Way of Death

By 2017, 1 out of 2 Americans will choose cremation over burial. Our changing attitude toward this final rite of passage says everything about the way we live now

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The Long Goodbye

For five months, I was my parents' death panel. And where the costly chaos of Medicare failed, a team of salaried doctors and nurses offered a better way

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