by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state. But across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking … a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough....
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Kate, 36, communicates through a keyboard. Scientists have shown for the first time that a person diagnosed as being in a vegetative state can communicate. In 1997, when Kate was 26, she caught an acute viral infection. It was so serious that it confined her to a...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As campaigners use the “hard cases” of severely disabled people to push for legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia in Britain, Pink and McNeilly urged sufferers not to give up on life. When Kerry Pink, an interior designer, was 35 in 1997 she fell ill with an...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Remember “My Body, My Choice”?] The advocacy billboards appeared without warning in San Francisco and New Jersey:: “My Life. My Death. My Choice.” Paid for by the Final Exit Network (FEN), the promotional signs received widespread media...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed HR 3590, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (P.L. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119) which was drafted by the Senate. The following week, on March 30, 2010, he signed HR 4872, the “Health Care and...
