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 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 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A California state Senate committee [28 May 2015] signed off on a bill to legalize assisted suicide and has sent the bill to the full state Senate for a vote. The Democrat-dominated California Senate Appropriations Committee approved SB 128, “physician-assisted...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Vermont legislature has fast-tracked a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and California may not be far behind. If the legislatures in these states do vote to redefine physician-assisted suicide as a legitimate and legal “medical treatment,” a large part...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Almost 750 Oregonians died from violence in 2005, with suicide accounting for the majority of those deaths. State health officials report that 555 Oregon residents killed themselves in 2005 — more than five times the amount who died from homicide. Oregon had...
