Background: Legislative changes are resulting in assisted death as an option for people at
the end of life. Although nurses' experiences and perspectives are underrepresented within …

Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social
responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to …

This stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the
sociology of death and dying. In recent years, the social sciences have seen an upsurge of …

Medical aid in dying (MAID) has been a productive target for social scientific inquiry at the
intersections of law and medicine over the past two decades. Insofar as MAID crystallizes …

The understanding of death, dying and bereavement in relation to society is indebted to a
number of disciplines–anthropology, history, psychology and sociology are surveyed …

Anchored in queer and crip perspectives, this essay proposes the neologism" suicidism" as
a new theoretical framework to conceptualize the oppressive system in which suicidal …

The range of end‐of‐life options is expanding across North America. Specifically, medical
aid in dying (AID), or the process by which a patient with a terminal illness may request …

While vaccine-critical activism has been widely documented and discussed, comparatively
little has been said about the concerted response of pro-vaccine activists defending the …

Abstract 'Suffering'is a central discursive trope for the right-to-die movement. In this article,
we ask how proponents of physician-assisted dying (PAD) articulate suffering with the role of …

Background Following the increased presence of the Right-to-Die Movement, improved end-
of-life options, and the political and legal status of aid-in-dying around the globe, suicide …