2021
How Our Attitude About Death Affects The Way We Age
How Our Attitude About Death Affects The Way We AgeAn interview with JoNel Aleccia
Kaiser Health News, November 24, 2020
2020
New Legal Push Aims to Speed Magic Mushrooms to Dying Patients
New Legal Push Aims to Speed Magic Mushrooms to Dying PatientsAn interview with JoNel Aleccia
Kaiser Health News, November 24, 2020
2019
Down the rabbit hole: Denver decriminalizes ‘magic mushrooms’ – a type that grows wild in Washington
Down the rabbit hole: Denver decriminalizes ‘magic mushrooms’ – a type that grows wild in WashingtonAn article by Megan Rowe
The Spokesman-Review, May 9, 2019
2018
Going out on a high: the doctor advocating LSD for the dying
Going out on a high: the doctor advocating LSD for the dyingAn article by Eugene S. Robinson OZY, December 2, 2018
We need to revolutionize end-of-life-care—here's why
We need to revolutionize end-of-life-care—here's whyAn article by Laura Dorwart, OZY, February 16, 2018
2015
Dying well — with courage and growth
Dying well — with courage and growthAn article by R. W. Dellinger, The Tidings, May 1, 2015
5 Questions for Ira Byock
5 Questions for Ira ByockAn article by Sam Mowe Spirituality and Health Magazine, Apr 12, 2015
Palliative care expert is a vocal opponent of Death With Dignity law
Palliative care expert is a vocal opponent of Death With Dignity lawLos Angeles Times, Apr 6, 2015
2013
The Best Care Possible
The Best Care PossibleAn interview with Dr. Byock by Brad Prescott, senior editor Caring.com, Apr 11, 2013
Doctor says advances prolong life, make dying harder
Doctor says advances prolong life, make dying harderAn article by Sally Mauk The Missoulian, Mar 16, 2013
2012
Safe Passage: Improving End-of-Life Care
Safe Passage: Improving End-of-Life CareAn article by Joni Rodgers A leading doctor has devoted his life to helping the terminally ill - and their families - face their mortality with honesty, dignity and compassion... Prevention Magazine - Apr, 2012
Finding a better way to die
Finding a better way to dieBoston Globe, Mar 26, 2012
Palliative Care Doctor, Ira Byock, on End of Life Care
Palliative Care Doctor, Ira Byock, on End of Life CareAn interview with Dr. Byock by Lynne Warren Ira Byock, a palliative care physician, says it's time to change end-of-life care… “Medicare must stop requiring people who are on the brink of death to give up access to potentially life-extending treatments as the price of access to the comprehensive care for their quality of life that hospice programs can provide..." AARP Bulletin, Mar 22, 2012
Dying by Degrees
Dying by DegreesIra Byock has been writing books about the way Americans die since 1998, when he published "Dying Well." For most of that time, he has been appalled. He still is. Dr. Byock, director of palliative medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, pulls no punches in his new book...
New York Times, The Caregivers's Bookshelf, Mar, 20, 2012
The cost of dying
The cost of dyingAt the Atlantic, palliative care physician Ira Byock makes the case for a shared-decision making approach to end-of-life care... Washington Post, Mar 7, 2012
'Best Care' may be dying well
'Best Care' may be dying wellIra Byock says he wants "to raise people's expectations" about the end of life and to to change the conversation about dying in America about dying... USA Today, Mar 7, 2012
2007
Life Force! Dr. Ira Byock is changing the way people die by changing the way they live.
Life Force! Dr. Ira Byock is changing the way people die by changing the way they live.An article by Stephen Kiernan,
The Boston Globe, Jan 14, 2007
2005
The Assisted-Suicide Debate
The Assisted-Suicide DebateAn interview with Ira Byock by Steve Gordon Valley News, Feb 4, 2005