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:

• Rutgers Law School hosted a forum to discuss the proposed Death with Dignity bill in New Jersey. Another Rutgers Law forum is scheduled April 10 at the Newark Campus.
• The chorus of support for Connecticut's Death with Dignity bill continues to grow. The bill has until May 5th to be approved for consideration by the full House of Representatives.
• Paul Carpenter, a columnist in Pennsylvania, heard an outpouring of support for safeguarded Death with Dignity laws like the ones in Oregon and Washington.
• A Minnesota judge ruled part of the state's law banning assisted death is unconstitutional. One of the defendants in the case, former Final Exit Network president Jerry Dincin, died four days after the verdict.

Kathy Kastner is just a regular gal who found herself pondering her own anxieties about dying, wanting to learn more about the process of dying, and seeking more knowledge about her end-of-life options. She knew she wasn't alone in this thirst for knowledge about what's often considered a taboo subject, and started BestEndings to serve as a portal of information and resources about end-of-life care.

My mom died 30 years ago. 

I hadn't given much thought about the decisions which were made before her death until I began my own journey of exploration into life's end which became BestEndings.

I found my mother's end—which started years before she actually died—creeping into my conscious. As the youngest of four, I had no part in the decision process when it came to her last months. And until a recent conversation with my older sister, I was absolutely positive my mother's advance directive was, "I want to be kept alive at all costs."