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 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The following article is a media release from the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland. The release explains that a person who was denied a prescription for Sodium Pentobarbital because of that person’s mental illness has now been granted the right to have the...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Swiss assisted-suicide group Dignitas has been evicted from its operation site in a suburban area due to growing complaints from neighbors. For nine years the assisted-suicide clinic at Gertrudstrasse 84 received people three or four times a week — waiting...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Years ago, the head of the Oregon Medical Association admitted that it was a mistake when the group adopted a “neutral” position on physician-assisted suicide. When the Oregon referendum was voted on, the OMA changed its’ position to opposition to PAS but it...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A Dutch appeals court acquitted a 74-year-old man earlier this month of the murder of his mother in 2008, because he acted in an “emergency situation”: the woman wanted euthanasia and had not obtained it from her family doctor. The decision is a surprising one, even...
