A growing number of us feel that death, when the time is right for us, should be comfortably in our own hands, not in... Read More

The right for a terminally ill individual to end their own life peacefully has been historically supported by humanists and the nonreligious community at... Read More

This week I attended a series of meetings with DC city council members as part of a bipartisan and interfaith effort to promote the... Read More

International affairs suffered quite the shock this past week as the United Kingdom confounded expert opinion by leaving the European Union, spreading panic through... Read More

For years, the American Humanist Association and countless humanists across the country have advocated for the right of people with terminal illnesses or who... Read More

Death is inevitable. Morrie Schwartz, author and professor at Brandeis University, once called it “the great equalizer,” which is an apt description considering death... Read More

“In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal... Read More

Click here to download and audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Bo Bennett interviews George Eighmey, officer and spokesperson for the Death... Read More

“It’s about choice and I want to have it, exclaimed Carolyn Almen, who was attending the World Federation of Right to Die Societies conference... Read More

In 2002 Belgium legalized the right to euthanasia (defined as the act of killing someone painlessly, especially to relieve suffering from an incurable illness)... Read More