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Death with Dignity: How I helped my Dad Die

Posted on January 28, 2021July 19, 2021 by Valerie Lovelace

This story is reposted in it's entirety from Bloomberg Business Week, where it was originally published by journalist Esmé Deprez, daughter of Maine resident Ron Deprez, on January 27, 2021. An additional link is also provided to a similar republication from January 28, 2021, by NDTV. Our deepestCONTINUE READING »

The Spirit of Dirigo: Celebrating One Year of Implementation in Maine

Posted on September 18, 2020July 19, 2021 by Valerie Lovelace

Republished from Death with Dignity National Center. One year ago, on September 19, 2019, the Maine Death with Dignity Act went into effect and implementation of the law began. Many years of grassroots organizing and legislative partnerships paved the way for passage of the law. But the success ofCONTINUE READING »

Making Peace with Life Through Death, Part 2: Processing

Posted on August 9, 2020November 11, 2022 by Valerie Lovelace

Republished from Death with Dignity National Center. Maine resident Karen Wentworth is the second patient to access the Maine Death with Dignity Act, which went into effect in September 2019. In the second installment of this 3-part series, Karen reads from an essay she wrote after she obtained the death-hasteningCONTINUE READING »

Maine Patient on “Making the Call”

Posted on July 8, 2020July 13, 2020 by Valerie Lovelace

Karen Wentworth, a resident of South Portland, Maine, shares her experience as a terminally ill patient qualifying for the Maine Death with Dignity Act on "Making the Call," a medical ethics podcast. Joined by Peg Sandeen, PhD, Executive Director of Death with Dignity National Center, they discuss withCONTINUE READING »

Update: April 2020

Posted on April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 by Valerie Lovelace

I don't know about you, but it feels to me like we are in a time warp. So much has changed recently. With Health Care Decisions Day (April 16) right around the corner and a pandemic in our faces, I am certain of only one thing now: Death.CONTINUE READING »

Mainers win death with dignity law

Posted on September 19, 2019July 19, 2021 by Valerie Lovelace

We did it. It's finally, finally ours. Opposition to the Maine Death with Dignity Act reported they do not have enough signatures to submit for a veto question. We have changed the course of Maine's history and our dying loved ones may now have the control they desireCONTINUE READING »

Emil Landau Human Rights Forum 2015

Posted on October 18, 2015June 7, 2023 by Valerie Lovelace

Skidompha Library’s 2015 Emil Landau Forum examined important end-of-life issues and options with a presentation titled, “How Do I Own My Own Death?” Executive Director Val Lovelace spoke to a group of over 80 attendees.