Life after assisted death

Advance directives (ADs) are written declarations of will regarding guidelines for future medical treatment, in the event that it is impossible to express one's own will.

Life after assisted death

Editor’s note: This story contains wide-ranging and frank discussion on the topics of death by suicide and assisted suicide. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It was a chilly day in late March when Thomas Macaulay sat down in his Aspen Court home to speak with the News, whom he had invited there to talk about his wife, the late Ardis Macaulay. Looking out into a gray sky through a large window near …

In Mexico, suicide is not just a statistic; it is a silenced cry that resonates in thousands of households. The figures are cold, but strong: in 2023, the suicide rate reached 6.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, an alarming leap since the 4.9 recorded in 2013, according to the INEGI. This means that suicide already represents 1.1% of the deaths in the country, being the nineteenth cause of mortality. Men, with 81.1% of the cases, carry the most visible…