SF News San Francisco Is At The Forefront Of Another Frontier: Care For The Dying In large part due to the enormity of suffering and loss of life during the height of the AIDS epidemic here, San Francisco has emerged two decades later with new models for providing
SF News Berkeley Doctor To Offer Aid-In-Dying Care For Terminally Ill Patients A Berkeley doctor has launched a new practice that aims to offer aid-in-dying guidance for terminally ill patients under a new California law set to take effect next week. KQED News reports that
SF News Pharma Company Hikes Price Of Aid-In-Dying Drug After California Passes Right-To-Die Law Following the passage of California's right-to-die/death with dignity legislation last fall, a pharmaceutical company that acquired the most popular drug of choice for the process doubled the price of it for patients
SF News Governor Brown Signs 'Right-To-Die' Into Law California became the fifth state to legalize a "death with dignity" or "right-to-die" law today when Governor Jerry Brown signed an amended End of Life Option Act, AB X2-15. The bill, which passed
SF News Right-To-Die Legislation May Pass In California Legislature After All A bill that would allow terminally ill patients in California to end their own lives with help from their doctors has just passed through the state Assembly on its way to a state
SF News Judge Denies Terminally Ill Patients The Right To Death With Dignity Terminal cancer patient Christy O'Donnell breaks down after judge refuses right to die. Story at 6 @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/b2HlVvOQvH— Mark Matthews (@MarkMatthewsNBC) August 15, 2015 A judge's ruling on Friday upheld
SF News Another Terminally Ill California Woman Makes Plea For Death With Dignity As the California legislature moves closer to possibly passing the End of Life Option Act, which is modeled on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act of 1997, the organization Compassion & Choices has released
SF News Right-to-Die Legislation Introduced In Sacramento In Wake Of Brittany Maynard Case The tragic case of 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, the Bay Area newlywed who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and moved to Oregon in order to commit assisted suicide with dignity,
SF News New Face Of Death With Dignity Cause, Brittany Maynard, Dies At 29 Though it sounded like she might be having second thoughts last week, 29-year-old death-with-dignity advocate Brittany Maynard decided to end her life as originally planned, on Saturday, November 1. She posted a message
SF News 29-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Relocates To Oregon To Commit Suicide Legally First off, this is going to make you cry. And it might derail your afternoon. So, fair warning. 29-year-old Brittany Maynard has been diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal and
