by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Scottish assisted suicide bill was just defeated in Parliament by a vote of 82 – 36. The defeat of the assisted suicide bill was predicted by the Care Not Killing Alliance earlier in the week when they announced that 59 MSP’s opposed the bill with...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
An international study finds that about forty percent of patients like Terri Schiavo who are supposedly in a persistent vegetative state are misdiagnosed and another fifty percent of them recover from their situation. The study finds the patients in question were in a...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Assisted suicide advocates have lost in some of the most liberal states in the country. They failed to get bills legalizing the practice approved in Vermont, Hawaii, and even California. Voters in Michigan and Main have rejected ballot proposals as well to promote...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A Therapy Using Electrodes Helps Patients Move from Feeding Tubes to Eating Normally Imagine if you lost your ability to swallow. How would you learn to eat again? Beaufort Memorial Hospital therapists are using a new method applying electrical stimulation to help...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A leading Russian scientist and politician has warned that trafficking in human organs will explode in the country if legal euthanasia is introduced, Regnum News Agency reported earlier today. Sergey Kolesnikov is a member of the Russian State Duma, a doctor of...