by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Physician’s Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST): Your Life or Death – Who Decides? The POLST movement “is a national effort to manage and control death under the guise of compassion.” – Lisa Gasbarre Black, J.D., General Counsel...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Comment: Note that some of these radical organ donation proposals are already happening in the US, according to this article. N Valko RN A BMA report has revived the debate about how far doctors should go to help save the lives of patients with organ failure. Patients...
by APFLI | May 10, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Most people who sign organ donor cards assume that they will be carefully diagnosed as “brain dead” before their organs are donated. That was generally true years ago, but a new non-brain death organ donation procedure was developed in the 1990s even...
by APFLI | May 10, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
A growing push has arisen from the medical community to increase the number of available human transplant organs by removing organs from non-brain-dead organ donors who experience “cardiac death” (CD) or 5 minutes of cardiac arrest. A recent article in the New...
by APFLI | Apr 21, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment and care, and should not be withdrawn lightly; 2) morphine must not be used aggressively to hasten death when a patient is not near the time of death; and 3) pain...
by APFLI | Jan 7, 2014 | 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
We have written dozens of stories the common theme of which is that patients diagnosed in a “persistent vegetative state” or “minimally conscious” are either (a) misdiagnosed or (b) much more aware than they are given credit for....
by APFLI | Aug 28, 2011 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Waking the Dead – One Day, 'Deep Coma' Victims Will be Able to Talk and Move Around Patients thought to be in a "persistent vegetative" state after suffering devastating brain damage could soon be able to "talk" and even steer a...
by APFLI | Aug 1, 2011 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The Link Between the Euthanasia Society of America and the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization is indisputably the successor organization of the Euthanasia Society of America. A new...
by APFLI | Mar 16, 2011 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Baby Tom fought for life for 46 minutes before dying in his mother’s arms. Mother’s fury over ‘no revival’ policy after seeing 22-week-old son die despite his 46min battle to live (dailymail.co.uk, 16 March 2011) Fri, 18 Mar 2011 A 22-week-old...
by APFLI | Aug 15, 2010 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
by Rita L. Marker On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed HR 3590, the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (P.L. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119) which was drafted by the Senate. The following week, on March 30, 2010, he signed HR 4872, the "Health...
by APFLI | May 12, 2010 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
[Note: Read the comment at end. I think that comment is more likely than the answer from the NYT. Left out of all the discussion is how assisted suicide will “work” in hospice. The Obamacare bills I read used the same disclaimer terminology about not...
by APFLI | May 2, 2010 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
A prominent Melbourne doctor has written that, contrary to popular belief, most organ donations take place before the donor is actually dead. He argues that the vague criterion of "brain death" has blinded potential donors to the fact that their organs are...
by APFLI | May 2, 2010 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Oxford Neonatologist Says Time Has Come to Consider “Mandatory Organ Donation” Also suggests that “donor death” criteria for organ donation should be abandoned According to Dr. Julian Savulescu, the Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics at...
by APFLI | Feb 21, 2010 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Poll: Americans Becoming More Opposed to Euthanasia, Worry About Elderly A new national poll finds Americans are largely split on the idea of legalizing euthanasia, but the opposition to the practice is growing. The new survey from Angus Reid Public Opinion, a...
by APFLI | Jul 13, 2009 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Commentary: ‘Cardiac Death’ Allows One to Kill the Organ Donor Analysis by Dr. John Shea MD FRCP(C), Medical Advisor to LifeSiteNews.com In 2006, research done by Dr. Gerald Buckberg, a cardio-thoracic surgeon and UCLA expert, demonstrated that a...
by APFLI | May 6, 2009 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Parents of stillborn children will be able to get a certificate of the child's birth under a bill Gov. Jeb Bush signed (2006). Florida is now the 14th state to offer certificates of stillbirths to mothers who carry their children at least 20 weeks and deliver...
by APFLI | Apr 9, 2009 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
For the past two decades, euthanasia/assisted-suicide ideologues have worked overtime to conflate palliative care—the medical alleviation of pain and other distressing symptoms of serious illness—with intentionally ending the life of the patient. The...
by APFLI | Nov 18, 2008 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Despite his own task force having said that it will not succeed, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he will not give up on a plan that would see every person in the UK automatically registered as an organ donor. Brown said of the task force and his plan,...
by APFLI | Nov 17, 2008 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Comment: It’s truly mystifying that this media outlet can publish an article like this clearly highlighting one of the problems of government-funded healthcare in another country, but refuse to see what is coming down the pike for Americans if...
by APFLI | Nov 17, 2008 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Comment: This article shows how realistic reassurance is better than euthanasia-for EVERYONE in the family. N.V. Keeping a Promise When a Life Is Near Its End By ELLEN D. FELD, M.D. “If something should happen to me, and I couldn’t help myself, would you...