Ann Rowland writes Letter to the Editor on Cleveland.com, April 24, 2025

Ohioans with terminal illnesses have medical-aid-in-dying options in Vermont, Oregon

Thank you for running The Washington Post story about Vermonters opening their houses to the terminally ill traveling to use Vermont’s medical aid in dying (MAiD) law (“Homeowners open their houses to terminally ill people,” April 20). MAiD, in the ten states that allow it, affords competent adults suffering from a terminal illness the right to obtain a prescription they can use to end their lives peacefully on their own terms if they are within six months of death.

Good Grief Podcast: Nikki the Death Doula and Lisa Vigil Schattinger discuss Medical Aid in Dying

Good Grief Podcast: Nikki the Death Doula and Lisa Vigil Schattinger discuss Medical Aid in Dying
January 29, 2025
Listen wherever you find your podcasts.

The Shapiro Brothers

Jeremy and Eric Shapiro are brothers. Both live and work in and around Shaker Heights, Ohio, not far from where they were born and raised. One is a doctor that treats the body, and the other works to heal the mind. They share the belief that the terminally ill should have access to medical aid in dying, making them part of a nationwide movement to rethink end-of-life care and what it should include.

Ann Schuur Opinion in Cincinnati.com April 2022

Ann Schuur Opinion contributor
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer
Published April 20, 2022

My father took his life in November 2019. He was 83, of sound mind and terminally ill with Stage 4 cancer complicated by COPD.

Letter to the Editor by Executive Director

Consider U.S. Laws before Canada’s:
Our executive director, Lisa Vigil Schattinger read a piece in the Cleveland Plain Dealer last week and knew immediately that she needed to respond. Her Letter to the Editor was published on Cleveland.com and in the digital/print edition on November 27, 2021.