by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Vermont House of Representatives voted against a proposal yesterday that would have made the state the second in the country to permit physician-assisted suicide, following Oregon. House members voted 82-63 against the measure euphemistically entitled...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The plight of elderly Americans is a top concern for the Center for a Just Society because this population is at significant risk of abuse and neglect. In my law practice, I have spent decades representing elderly men and women who have endured unspeakable nursing...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
About half of the 300 deaths of infants under the age of one are the result of active life termination. This emerged from a study by Professor Veerle Provoost of the University of Ghent. Provoost examined the medical files of about 300 babies. She also interviewed the...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Unable to come to terms with the death of their pet dog, an elderly couple here committed suicide by hanging themselves. The bodies of 67-year-old retired soldier C N Madanraj and his wife, Tarabai, 63, were found in their home. According to the police, the childless...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In September 2006, 20 neurology experts from all over the world met to discuss the prevailing definition of brain death, that human death occurs when there is “the complete and irreversible cessation of all brain activity including the brain stem”. After 2...
