by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The British Medical Association reaffirmed its opposition to assisted suicide at its 2009 annual conference. Despite an attempt by MPs to legalize the practice or allow so-called suicide tourism, doctors rejected a call from BMA member Kailash Chand to change its...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Swiss prosecutors in the region of Zurich have instituted stricter regulations that are intended to curb the growing problem of “suicide tourism,” reports The Telegraph. Numerous high-profile cases over the last several years of foreigners traveling to...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
If there’s one thing worse than being in a coma, it’s people thinking you are in one when you aren’t. Yet a new comparison of methods for detecting consciousness suggests that around 40 per cent of people diagnosed as being in a vegetative state are...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Olympic Medical Center in Washington state has changed its position on whether staff and patients will be allowed to pursue an assisted suicide. The decision is a modification of its original one to opt out of participating in the law that made Washington the second...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
After Montana joined Washington and Oregon in legalizing physician-assisted suicide late last year, Montanans trying to kill themselves are having trouble finding a doctor to fill their “exit prescriptions.” The Denver-based assisted suicide advocacy group...
