by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As of July 2005, 14% of Medicare hospice providers were overdue for certification, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General report released 24Apr. [AP/Houston Chronicle]. The report used data from a 2005 survey of 2,537 active hospices. According to the report,...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Flemish liberals Open VLD want patients in all government-funded hospitals to have the right to euthanasia if they so choose. The hospital should make provisions for this option if a patient comes up against opposition from a physician who on principle refuse to...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A recent report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (May 10, 2007) has been reported by the media as stating that the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands has dropped since it was formally legalized in 2002. When reading the actual report we learn of...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
“…It was about the Social Security system, Medicaid and Medicare. The Schiavo case was a public relations effort for euthanasia and assisted suicide, trying to make it acceptable and more palatable to terminate the disabled, elderly and vulnerable if it...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Jack Kevorkian is to be freed June 1 [2007] after having served eight years in the poisoning of a man with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Known as Dr. Death, Kevorkian is about to get a new lease on life — one that may bring speaker fees of up to $100,000 as he...
