Print & Online

2022

Conversation with Ira Byock: Intentional Branding of Palliative Care

eHospice: Palliative care news, views and inspiration from around the world
May 1, 2022

2021

Dr. Ira Byock Makes an Ethical and Business Case for Investing in Palliative Care

An interview with Julie Minda
Catholic Health World, November 1, 2021

Practitioners strive to preserve the dignity and 'fullness of life' for patients facing chronic illness or death.

2020

How Our Attitude About Death Affects The Way We Age

An interview with JoNel Aleccia

New Legal Push Aims to Speed Magic Mushrooms to Dying Patients

An 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

An article by Megan Rowe
The Spokesman-Review, May 9, 2019

2018

Going out on a high: the doctor advocating LSD for the dying

An article by Eugene S. Robinson OZY, December 2, 2018

We need to revolutionize end-of-life-care—here's why

An article by Laura Dorwart, OZY, February 16, 2018

2015

Dying well — with courage and growth

An article by R. W. Dellinger, The Tidings, May 1, 2015

5 Questions for Ira Byock

An article by Sam Mowe Spirituality and Health Magazine, Apr 12, 2015

Palliative care expert is a vocal opponent of Death With Dignity law

Los Angeles Times, Apr 6, 2015

2013

The Best Care Possible

An interview with Dr. Byock by Brad Prescott, senior editor Caring.com, Apr 11, 2013

Doctor says advances prolong life, make dying harder

An article by Sally Mauk The Missoulian, Mar 16, 2013

2012

Safe Passage: Improving End-of-Life Care

An 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

Boston Globe, Mar 26, 2012

Palliative Care Doctor, Ira Byock, on End of Life Care

An 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

Ira 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

At 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

Ira 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.

An article by Stephen Kiernan,
The Boston Globe, Jan 14, 2007

2005

The Assisted-Suicide Debate

An interview with Ira Byock by Steve Gordon Valley News, Feb 4, 2005