ABSTRACT
Michael Vitez is a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He worked for newspapers Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Con necticut before arriving in Philadelphia in 1985. He specializes in general assignment feature writing, which means he writes about a wide range of subjects and people. In recent years, he has special ized in writing about aging, but he has said that his favorite aspect of journalism is storytelling. In the late fall of 1996, Vitez wrote a five-part series of feature stories about terminally ill individuals who seek to die with dignity. With him, photographers April Saul and Ron Cortes documented the stories that were told and the indi viduals involved in them.
