Mourn

Starting and growing a Rosh Chodesh group.

When it's acceptable to use a "living will" to end treatment of terminally ill patients

Study in honor of dead; women reciting Kaddish; Kaddish integrating mourners into communities; and hiring someone to say Kaddish.

Traditional rabbinic authorities forbid instigating the death of a terminally ill patient.

The actions required of mourners following the death of close relatives help them to confront the reality of the death, to work through feelings of ambivalence, and to express grief and anger.

Even if we are unable to fully fix what's broken, we can begin to make a difference by stepping forward.

Can women say the Mourner's Kaddish?

During this Jewish mourning custom, the entire physical environment of the mourner is transformed to acknowledge the immediacy of death.

The Torah prohibits murder, and the Talmud maintains the prohibition on active killing, even with the terminally ill.

Contemporary Jewish thinkers have expressed a wide range of opinions about the permissibility and parameters of euthanasia.