by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
If a patient is able to process oxygen from the lungs into the bloodstream, maintain a normal body temperature, digest food and expel waste, grow to normal adult size from the age of four to twenty, and even carry a child to term, can he or she be considered dead? Can...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
One of the medical world’s key diagnostic tools for determining “brain death” preliminary to organ retrieval, actually causes the severe brain damage it purports to determine, neurologist Dr. Cicero Coimbra told attendees at a conference last week....
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The theme for the Second International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in 2009 was: Never Again. The Symposium focused on building an effective, unified and focused group of organizations and individuals to stop the forward movement of the death lobby in...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
An open letter by doctors, circulated before Christmas, asking that Eluana Englaro be spared death by dehydration has grown from 44 to over 700 signatures. The letter says that physicians have a “professional and scientific duty” to provide hydration and nutrition to...
by APFLI | May 18, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
LifeNews has repeatedly chronicled cases of people who were prematurely declared dead or said to be in supposedly persistent vegetative states who ultimately recovered. We have also covered miraculous cases where an act of God appears to be the only reason or only...
