by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A survey conducted by a doctors group finds that the British public favors allowing patients to receive food and water if they have asked in advance not to have it removed. The polling results are similar to those in a recent survey conducted in the USA. First Do No...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
KY Supreme Court decided that families of permanently unconscious patients may have their lives ended by removing their life support, even if a person had not declared a desire for this to happen. Persons in persistent vegetative state (still very open to...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The hearing surrounded the death of Schiavo, the disabled woman who was starved during a painful 13-day process. The hearing was supposed to include Terri and her estranged husband Michael, but judges ignored Congressional subpoenas asking them to appear and allowed...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The French senate has approved a law granting terminally ill patients the right to end life; it allows doctors to stop giving medical assistance when it “has no effect other than maintaining life artificially”. It had already been approved by the lower...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Responses - Declarations / DPA / Advance Directives / Talking Points
Quad City Right To Life has developed a durable power of attorney for health care to protect a patient’s right to receive medical care, nutrition and hydration. QCRTL director Bowman said the form is being offered in the wake of the Terri Schiavo case....
