by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The religious beliefs of doctors strongly influence the decisions they make when caring for terminally ill patients, according to research published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Dr. Clive Seale, a professor at the Centre for Health Sciences, Barts and the London...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Euthanasia advocates in the Netherlands are proposing establishing new suicide clinics similar to the ones the pro-euthanasia group Dignitas runs in Switzerland that have generated so much controversy. The Dutch pressure group Right to Die NL (NVVE) is investigating...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Local authorities in Zurich are asking questions about the assisted suicide facility Dignitas, after 300 urns containing human ashes were found in Lake Zurich this week. The urns bear the logo of the Nordheim crematorium, which is used by Dignitas. Former Dignitas...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Organs may have been removed from deceased people without their consent after a data-handling error by the NHS. The blunder meant 800,000 people on the UK donor register may have had their wishes about the use of organs for transplant wrongly recorded. The Sunday...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Trying to Discourage Suicide Tourism With Support from the Zurich Parliament, a referendum to discourage “suicide tourism” in Switzerland will be held on 28Nov10. The measure is aimed at curtailing the suicide trade of Dignitas, the clinic near Zurich that...
