After a terminal cancer diagnosis upended 12 years of remission, all Elaine Fong's mother wanted was a peaceful end of life. What she received instead became a fight for the right to decide when. Fong shares the heart-rending journey to honor her mother's choice for a death with dignity -- and reflects on the need to explore our relationship to dying so that we may redesign this final and most universal of human experiences.

Elaine Fong: My mother's final wish -- and the right to die with dignity

My mother's final wish -- and the right to die with dignity

Designing a dignified end: A daughter navigates her mother's final wish for death with dignity amidst legal and medical hurdles.

Facing the challenge of end-of-life care, a family's journey highlights the complexity of choices in life's final chapter.

Death With Dignity: A personal story underscores the need for dialogue on end-of-life options and the reimagining of death.