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Omega (stylized OMEGA, full titles: OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying and Omega: An International Journal for the Study of Dying, Death, Bereavement, Suicide, and Other Lethal Behaviors) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of the study of death and dying. It is a multidisciplinary journal, covering disciplines including ...
Death Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published ten times a year by Routledge and sponsored by the Association for Death Education and Counseling [1] – The Thanatology Association. It focuses on issues related to death, dying, bereavement, and death education.
Thanatology is the scientific study of death and the losses brought about as a result. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the postmortem period, as well as wider psychological and social aspects related to death. It is primarily an interdisciplinary study offered as a ...
The medical aid in dying act — the latest in a series of physician-assisted suicide bills proposed since 2015 — has gained momentum in recent weeks after a top physician trade group in New ...
At least 12 states currently have bills that would legalize physician-assisted death. A bill moving through the Illinois Legislature to allow certain terminally ill patients to end their own lives ...
As of 2019, On Death and Dying has been translated into forty-one languages, with the 50th anniversary edition published by Simon & Schuster. In December 2019, The American Journal of Bioethics published a special issue (Volume 19, Number 12) dedicated to commemorating the 50th anniversary of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's work, On Death and Dying.
An article in the May issue of the New England Journal of Medicine called for wider U.S. use of medication-assisted therapies for addicts, commonly referred to as MATs. It was written by Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse — which helped research Suboxone before it earned FDA approval in 2002 — along with ...
A bill to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults in Britain has reached Parliament, with activists hoping the UK will become one of few to legalize the process.