April 25, 2025
Spring is here!! (Well, I suppose that depends on where in the country you live.) You should be out smelling the flowers! But if not, or you have hay fever — here’s your final-Friday of the month aid-in-dying word puzzle, thanks to our puzzle maven (and Board member) Michael Blake.
This month’s theme: Books About Aid in Dying. The format has changed, this time a Word Match Challenge (think, painfully, of when you took the SAT exam in high school).
Here’s how it works: Click in a box until you see a dot, then release the click and move the mouse to the associated word in the next column. Click in that box, then release the click and move the mouse to the correct box in the next column and click on that. If you’re correct, the lines will stay. If you’re incorrect, the lines disappear and you get to keep trying.
Enjoy this last-Friday of the month puzzle. Then go smell those flowers.
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.
March 28, 2025
Another cold/snowy/rainy weekend begins, with vague hints of spring. There’s more to life, folks, than aid-in-dying clinical care — so here’s your end-of-month aid-in-dying word puzzle, thanks to our puzzle maven (and Board member) Michael Blake.
In the puzzle below, search for the expressions at the bottom. To add to the challenge, some, but not all, of these have been broken up. Find the expressions in the puzzle (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or backward), drag your mouse along the lines, and… if you complete it, e-mail us a screenshot of the finished puzzle, and Michael will, well, personally congratulate you!
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.
March 26, 2025
Pharmacology Update: Hydrocodone vs Morphine for Aid-in-Dying Medications.
Preliminary Data Presented/Explained in a 12-minute Video Podcast.
12 minutes
Of interest to attending/prescribing clinicians and pharmacists since it may — or may not — affect prescribing choices.
Gratitude to Angelique Loscar, the Academy’s Director of Data Management and Analysis, for her work on this.
March, 20, 2025:
The Academy’s esteemed colleagues Hope Wechkin, MD, and Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C are featured on the highly informative and widely viewed GeriPal Podcast. Hope talks about Minimal Comfort Feeding. Thaddeus discusses the use of Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking as a bridge to aid in dying — see an article by Thad on that topic in the Academy’s Journal of Aid-in-Dying Medicine (with a counterpoint by Dr. Bob Uslander).
March 7, 2025, another cold/snowy/rainy weekend begins. There’s more to life, folks, than aid-in-dying clinical care! How about a break? — this month, not only an aid-in-dying word puzzle themed to Aid-in-Dying Films, but the Academy’s first Video Podcast, starting with a review of the Pedro Almodóvar film The Room Next Door (Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore). Enjoy! See you on Monday.
12 minutes
Puzzle #2 (3/7/25) Films about Aid in Dying
In the Word Search below, scroll to the bottom for the choices, find the words in the puzzle (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or backward), drag your mouse along the lines, and… if you complete it, e-mail us a screenshot of the finished puzzle and Michael will, well, personally congratulate you!
All of the hidden entries are movie titles that touch on medical aid in dying. Note that two of the films, A SHORT STAY IN SWITZERLAND and TAKE ME OUT FEET FIRST, are too long to fit in the grid, so they have been chopped into two parts. We hope you enjoy this one!
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.
February 10, 2025:
Why DDMAPh? The Journal of Palliative Medicine‘s January 2025 issue answered just that.
— The Pharmacology of Aid in Dying: From Database Analyses to Evidence-Based Best Practices.
As Dr. Jessica Kaan of End of Life Washington noted on the Academy Listserv: Published in a well-respected academic journal, this article marks a milestone in the field of end-of-life care. The groundbreaking work is the first to focus exclusively on the scientific aspects of aid in dying. Shifting from discussions about ethics or societal attitudes, this achievement underscores the growing importance of evidence-based clinical practices, advancing the scientific understanding of this complex and evolving field.
February 7, 2025, a cold/snowy/rainy weekend begins. There’s more to life, folks, than aid-in-dying clinical care! How about a break… with an aid-in-dying word puzzle?
Click on our 1-minute Introduction Video Below
Below, a 5-minute video guide to the AADM.org website
(For a larger version, click on the
Full Screen icon in the lower right of the video)
The Academy is proud to announce
Issue 2 of the Journal of Aid-in-Dying Medicine
Issue 2, December 2024
Read Issue 2Academy Colleague Events
THADDEUS MASON POPE, JD, PhD, HEC-C.
Health law professor and bioethicist
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 4:00-6:00 pm, Eastern.
Stackhouse Theater, Lexington, VA
and live-streamed on YouTube
How We Die: A Panel Investigating the Ethics of Medical Aid in Dying
With: Terri Laws, PhD; Mara Buchbinder, PhD; Moderated by Kerry Egan, MDiv.
Derek Humphry
April 29, 1930 — January 2, 2025
An Academy Remembrance, by Anita Hannig