by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
It would have made CA the second, following Oregon, to legalize assisted suicide. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 28 June 2006 against the measure, meaning the legislation is dead for the rest of the legislative session. Democratic Sens. Martha Escutia of...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
POLST is being proposed in a number of states across the US. In North Carolina, the form has undergone pilot tests, and the North Carolina Medical Society is considering its adoption. The purpose of this letter is to: Review the history of POLST on a national level...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A flood of lawsuits challenging lethal injection as cruel and unusual has stalled executions in some states and may prompt others to abandon them. And a Supreme Court ruling last week made it easier for death-row prisoners to file such suits. At the core of the issue...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism
Recently, Canadians voted in a nationwide contest for who they thought was the “Greatest Canadian” of all time. They chose socialist icon, Tommy Douglas, the “father of medicare,” and founder of the extreme left party, the New Democrats. The 2004 “Greatest Canadian”,...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
Sleeping Drug Broke Man’s 3-Year Coma A 28-year-old South African man who has been comatose since an accident three years ago is able to wake up with the unlikely help of a sleeping medication… Louis Viljoen was hit by a truck on a highway in 2003, and has...
