by APFLI | May 19, 2016 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
This week, CBS’ 60 Minutes reported that FDA has just granted “breakthrough status” for an innovative treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer that was first reported by 60 Minutes on March 29, 2015. Brittany Maynard had glioblastoma and died by physician-assisted...
by APFLI | Nov 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Update: Oregon & Washington Suicide Study A suicide study, published in the Southern Medical Journal, found an increase (6.3%) in total suicides, with a larger increase (14.5%) among individuals 65 or older, in Oregon and Washington after doctor-assisted suicide...
by APFLI | Sep 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
[Comment: Note especially the link to the euthanasia kits proposed for doctors in Canada. It describes the medications with the final one paralyzing the person’s respiratory muscles so that he/she can’t breathe. This is beyond chilling. N. Valko RN, 30 Sept 2015] On...
by APFLI | Jul 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Around one in five patients who choose euthanasia in the Netherlands acts under pressure from family members, according to a leading expert on the ethics of assisted dying, as reported last week in Dutch News:...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Human Development, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates widespread discriminatory denial of life-preserving medical treatment to premature infants based on fear that if assisted to live they might have disabilities – in defiance of protective...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Diane Coleman is president and CEO of Not Dead Yet, a national disability organization that opposes legalization of assisted suicide. Not Dead Yet is based in Rochester. People are often surprised to learn that all of the major national disability rights groups that...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Live in Washington State? In a crisis? Suicidal? Call 911. Then what? A dispatcher sends crisis negotiators who, if they follow the suggestions provided at a recent negotiators’ training session, could help you consider “all options.” If you’re...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
This story is not unique. It is happening thousands of times a year. Please be aware of what is happening in some U.S. hospitals, nursing homes and Hospice. “I believe my mother was killed while in hospice care this August. Mother had congestive heart failure,...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
No doubt about it: Belgium is the place to be for creative applications of legalized euthanasia. Last year Belgian transplant surgeons revealed that they had harvested organs from four people who were voluntarily euthanized. Now it appears that one prisoner, a...
by APFLI | May 14, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Belgian Doctors: Lethal Drugs Should be Given to Patients Regardless of Family Wishes The Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine has asserted the right of doctors to give lethal doses of sedatives to patients they claim have “no prospect of a meaningful...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Comment: If death penalty opponents are so critical of the drugs used in lethal injection executions because of the length of time and suffering involved, why don’t they just ask the assisted suicide supporters for their alleged “humane” drug regimen? One likely...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Starvation is not mercy. Should the law compel nursing homes to starve certain Alzheimer’s patients to death? This is not an alarmist fantasy, but a real question, soon to be forced by advocates of ever-wider application of assisted euthanasia. The intellectual...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A hallmark of legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide is the ever increasing number of reported cases annually. While it was disturbing that Washington State—after only four years of legalized doctor-prescribed suicide practice—surpassed Oregon’s mounting...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED, Uncategorized
According to a study presented at the May 2014 American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Diego, Massachusetts General Hospital’s ethics committee has had a policy allowing unilateral do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders since 2006. These orders, as defined...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Quebec Law in 2014 Requires All Hospitals, Nursing Homes to Offer Euthanasia Late last week, a radical new euthanasia bill passed into law by a free vote in the National Assembly in Quebec…...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A Dutch expert on euthanasia has not only stopped supporting the death practice and the euthanasia law for which he campaigned, but he has made the reasons for his about-face public—something usually frowned upon in Dutch circles. Professor Theo Boer held a unique...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
[Comment: If you connect to the link about getting legal status for Delaware’s POLST, you will be taken to a very interesting and apparently power point presentation on the promotion of EOL (end of life) legislation. The last link is for a $395, updatable “Right to...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Comment: The euthanasia movement routinely denies the existence of a slippery slope and touts the effectiveness of its “safeguards.” Note that the UK experience is rarely cited by euthanasia promoters. [N. Valko RN, 24 July 12] Pro-Euthanasia Movement...
by APFLI | May 11, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
GOODBYE DEAR FRIEND! It is with sadness that we learned today of the death of our friend Alison Davis. Alison worked long and hard to promote the dignity of every human life and stood steadfastly against euthanasia and assisted suicide. Following is her article from...
by APFLI | May 11, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Retired politician Bob Rae used the occasion of a friend’s apparent suicide to call on Canada to establish a national suicide prevention plan. Chris Peloso was Rae’s friend and well known in Ontario’s political circles as the husband to George Smitherman, a former...