Throughout the week, we keep people up-to-date with information about the Death with Dignity movement and other topics related to end-of-life care through Facebook and Twitter. Below are highlights from this week.

Efforts regarding Death with Dignity:

• Massachusetts advocate, Dr. Marcia Angell, and Death with Dignity National Center Executive Director, Peg Sandeen were featured in an article by the Pew Center of the States.
• In Williamstown, MA, a local grassroots committee talked to their fellow residents about the state's Death with Dignity initiative.
• Some upcoming events in Massachusetts to help people learn more about their iniative were announced:
• Thursday, Sept. 20, State Rep. Kaufman will hold a public policy forum.
• Monday, Oct. 15, Boston University School of Law will host their Pike lecture featuring Dr. Marcia Angell.
• Michael Sales from Newburyport, MA explained why he supports the state's Death with Dignity initiative.

Discussions about death, dying, and grieving:

• The effects of using euphemisms to describe death was the topic for this week's chat hosted by advocate Nora Miller.
• In a similar vein, NPR interviewed Hitchens' widow, and she talked about how they both disliked the battle analogies when talking about cancer: "I'm not fighting it; it's fighting me."
• In The Week, Bill Frist asked, "How do you want to die?"
• This week the US recalled the difficult events of September 11, 2001. The Atlantic shared "The Story of the Only American Not on Earth on September 11th".
• Dr. Mikkael Sekeres shared a poignant story about caring for the family of one of his patients who died of leukemia.

Life's too short:

• This real-time wind map will blow your mind.
• But seriously, let's get back to cats, shall we? Or rather on the backs of cats.