I oversee the public affairs and communications activities at The Hastings Center, the oldest independent bioethics research institute. I edit Bioethics Forum, a blog of commentary on bioethics in the news. Before joining Hastings I was a journalist and book author covering health and medicine for The New York Times and other publications. I am the author of "A Field Guide to Boys and Girls" and co-author of "The Harvard University Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory."

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Are Alzheimer’s-related suicides an emerging trend?

A death notice in The New York Times last week caught the eye of one of my colleagues, who circulated it around the office. It was for an emerita professor of psychology at Cornell who committed suicide after receiving an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Are there more such death notices to come?