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The article features Tundra, Inc., a Canadian startup corporation which has obtained the Canadian government's approval to offer its clients a chance to participate in its Immortality Project. Topics include association of Canada with both technology dreams and technology disasters, the only people the Immortality project will be marketed to, and how the U.S. frustrated Tundra's business plan.

The authors comment on an article by Shavelson and colleagues about medical aid in dying. Topics discussed include the role of high-quality palliative and hospice care in chronic illness and during the dying process, proposed use of assistive technologies rather than amending existing laws to allow human-assisted administration, and things that need to be done to foster the rights and care of individuals with disabilities at the end of life.