by APFLI | Jul 7, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Netherlanders are pressured into ‘choosing’ euthanasia, reads the story. I’m not surprised. This has been true for many years. For example, in the first edition of my Forced Exit, I reported on a story in which a wife told her husband to die or be put in a...
by APFLI | Jul 7, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Colombia’s first legal euthanasia has just been carried out. That makes four countries with currently legal euthanasia; Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Colombia. Canada will soon join that list once the Supreme Court’s imposition goes into effect next year. The...
by APFLI | Jul 6, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Two people I know attempted suicide after my daughter Marie died by suicide using an assisted suicide technique she read about. N. Valko RN] Mount Mihara in Japan: the government had to erect a fence to discourage suicide jumpers like Kiyoko Matsumoto....
by APFLI | Jul 6, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
After a European court issued a ruling saying a disabled patient can be starved to death against his will, the brother of Terri Schiavo says the parallels in the case are eerily similar to what happened to his sister. Vincent Lambert, a tetraplegic patient who has...
by APFLI | Jul 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: The CMA draft can be found at… https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Principles+Based+Approach+to+Assisted+Dying+in+Canada This draft is not only frightening to read, it does not bode well for Canadian doctors (and nurses) or potentially US medical...
by APFLI | Jul 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Comment: Compassion and Choices has a lethal game plan for forcing assisted suicide on the nation. Note this quote: “Despite the growing death-with-dignity fight in various states, Coombs Lee doesn’t expect that it will find itself in front of the Supreme Court...
by APFLI | Jul 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Euthanasia laws in the Netherlands and Belgium took effect in 2002. What has occurred since that time is alarming to many inside and outside those countries. The Netherlands: A judge in Utrecht ordered the euthanasia death of an 80-year-old woman with dementia despite...
by APFLI | Jun 16, 2015 | Responses - Declarations / DPA / Advance Directives / Talking Points
[Comment: NDY has done great work in the Brittany Maynard case. I read NDY’s blog, and NDY’s activism is amazing and far surpasses anyone else’s. Please read these excellent NDY talking points below to get a picture of the great work done by Diane Coleman and Stephen...
by APFLI | Jun 15, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
[Comment: The idea of using assisted suicide/euthanasia victims for organ harvesting is not a new one. It was brought up in 1998 by Jack Kevorkian when he offered the kidneys of one of his assisted suicide victims to organ transplantation organizations. Note this...
by APFLI | Jun 12, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A recent study out of Belgium reports thousands of patients are killed against their will by their doctors. The study in the Journal of Medical Ethics found 1 in 60 patient deaths included someone who didn’t want to die, half were over the age of 80, and...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In 1997, Oregon became the first government in the world to legalize assisted suicide, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal prescriptions to terminally ill patients. Since then, 1,173 people have received a lethal prescription, and 752 of them have taken the...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
After a European court issued a ruling saying a disabled patient can be starved to death against his will, his parents are vowing to fight it. Vincent Lambert, a tetraplegic patient who has been in a state of minimal consciousness in hospital for six years following a...
by APFLI | Jun 10, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A British woman was given the mandatory minimum sentence (at least 9 years) for smothering a man to death. Heather Davidson (54) pled guilty to smothering David Paterson (81) to death on February 11, 2015. According to the York Press Davidson claimed that she was...
by APFLI | Jun 10, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Almost 2% of ALL who die in Belgium… The bottom line of euthanasia consciousness is that killing is splendid way to end human suffering. Advocates say it is also about “choice.” But once one accepts the first destructive premise, what’s choice got to do with it?...
by APFLI | Jun 9, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings, Uncategorized
A car accident left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a coma. This is the story of the long, perilous crawl to recovery. Dylan Rizzo, April 2015. Photo: Dylan Coulter for New York Magazine Day Zero Despite its encircling fortress of bone, the human brain is especially...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Human Development, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates widespread discriminatory denial of life-preserving medical treatment to premature infants based on fear that if assisted to live they might have disabilities – in defiance of protective...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Members of Oregon’s Congressional delegation on 20July05 filed a brief with the top court asking it not to side with the Bush administration against allowing federally controlled drugs to be used in assisted suicides. Sen. Ron Wyden and Reps. Wu, Blumenauer,...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A new analysis of Dutch doctors by researchers in the Netherlands finds that they are more frequently using euthanasia to kill sick children, sometimes taking the country’s assisted suicide laws as far as they will allow. The European nation legalized euthanasia...
by APFLI | Jun 7, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
The brave woman who refused brain surgery to give birth to her unborn baby free from the effects of the surgery, is improving and her baby is headed home. Melissa C., 39, is a modern-day hero. Her dreams of becoming a mother finally came true even if she wasn’t awake...
by APFLI | Jun 6, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The battle lines are being set for what promises to be highly emotional, acerbic debates in both the British and Canadian parliaments in October. The topic: legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. In Britain, the euthanasia debate flared earlier this year...
