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Image Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble’s mission is to revive the practice of memento mori, intentionally thinking about your own death as a means of appreciating the present.Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times To the Editor: We have a 100 percent mortality rate. But too many people never engage in a process of thinking about and planning for their deaths so that they can die, to the extent possible, on their own terms in accord with their values and beliefs, religious and otherwise. Those 18 and over should have discussions with loved ones and appoint a health care agent (or durable po...

Brooklyn: The recent op-ed about the Gowanus rezoning (“The Gowanus rezoning makes us sick,” April 25) includes a staggering number of outright lies and misleading statements about the ongoing cleanup of the Public Place development site, also known as Gowanus Green.

Rejecting arguments in opposition to medical aid in dying | David Leven David C. Leven View Comments This opinion column was submitted by David C. Leven, JD, who has been working End of Life Choices New York for almost two decades. T. Brian Callister's column is replete with factual errors and invalid arguments against what is now more properly termed medical aid in dying. People die by suicides who could continue to live, usually when mentally ill, often impulsively and violently. Their deaths are tragic.  To the contrary, a terminal disease is killing those who take prescribed medications�...

Palliative care or aid-in-dying? Why not both? Updated December 22, 2020, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend Getty Images My position is rooted in both rational and emotional considerations, having had two wives who died, one from a brain aneurysm and the other from cancer. In the first instance, we had discussed the issue of one of us being in a potentially terminal situation and what the other should do; in the second, we shared nine years of treatments and discussion of how long this should go on, even with palliative care playing a role. Advertisement It seems to me that ultimately, the individu...