by APFLI | Mar 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Trying to cash in on the widespread empathy generated by its media campaign featuring Brittany Maynard (the young woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon last year to die using the Death with Dignity law), the assisted-suicide activist group Compassion &...
by APFLI | Jan 7, 2014 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
We have written dozens of stories the common theme of which is that patients diagnosed in a “persistent vegetative state” or “minimally conscious” are either (a) misdiagnosed or (b) much more aware than they are given credit for....
by APFLI | Oct 7, 2013 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Since 2002, when Belgium legalized euthanasia, a mentality of absolute individual autonomy has profoundly altered the medical community’s treatment of patients and has isolated vulnerable individuals so much that they no longer feel connected to others. Drs. Tom...
by APFLI | May 7, 2013 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: This is why well-funded assisted suicide organizations like Compassion and Choices are desperately trying to change the term “assisted suicide” to something more benign. Unfortunately, the media is acquiescing and increasingly portrays opposition...
by APFLI | Aug 15, 2010 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
POLST: stands for Physician's Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment. In some states it is called MOLST (medical orders for life-sustaining treatment) or similar names. A one page, two-sided form printed on brightly colored heavy paper, it is placed in the...
