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Without medical aid-in-dying, some patients choose to die violently. Sheryl Randall...

There was a stark difference between who Sheryl Randall was most of her life and who she had become when she tied a rope...

What’s on this 80-year-old cancer patient’s bucket list? Helping to pass...

Patti James has spent her 80 years focusing on her nursing career, responsibilities to her family and foster kids, service to her church and...

Walking Dead: Doomed-to-die bills and the Colorado lawmakers breathing life into...

Each session, zombie bills lurk at the Colorado Capitol. Minimum wage increases, high-capacity-magazine-ban repeals, the Parent's Bill of Rights, the gay-conversion-therapy ban – these are just...

#Coleg notebook: Avoiding Safe2Bully; Rep. Danielson on her first 30 days

When Safe2Tell becomes Safe2Bully:  Last year, in the wake of the Arapahoe High School shooting, state lawmakers adopted Safe2Tell, a successful anonymous student intel program that...

Defining Dignity: Debate gets real over ‘right to die’ bill

“Suicide is someone intentionally causing their own death,” he said. “I don’t want to cause my own death. I’m not doing that. The cancer is doing that.”