by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
State officials have offered a lung cancer patient the option of having the Oregon Health Plan, set up in 1994 to ration health care, pay for an assisted suicide but not for the chemotherapy prescribed by her physician. The story appears to be a happy ending for...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
A Virginia family was shocked but relieved when their mother, Val Thomas, woke up after doctors said she was dead. Mrs. Thomas, 59, while being kept breathing artificially, had no detectable brain waves for more than 17 hours. The family was discussing organ donation...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
An assisted-suicide bill that allows doctors and nurses to suggest death by unconscious dehydration has barely passed the California State Assembly. AB 2747 would authorize total sedation without nutrition and hydration for depressed and confused patients, whether or...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A group of legislators in Belgium is seeking to expand the practice of euthanasia to include those who are unconscious, as well as minors, according to a recent article in the Spanish newspaper Hoy. The initiative, spearheaded by former Senator Jean-Jacques de Gucht,...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Jocelyn Downie, the Canada Research Chair of Health Law and Policy said at an End-of-Life Ethics & Decision-Making conference at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg yesterday that doctors do not have the legal right to withdraw life-sustaining medical treatment...
