Ellen Goodman never talked to her late mother about how she wanted to be cared for at the end of her life and was left scrambling when the time came. She improvised treatment and funeral decisions and ...

BOSTONIn the end, the personal was political. What brought the 78-year-old California governor and former Jesuit seminarian to sign the law that will allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to ...

NEW YORK — I went to the grannies for a booster shot of optimism. It’s been that kind of a week. We just passed the third anniversary of the flight-jacket photo op and its mission unaccomplished. The ...