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 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 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...
