by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
A group of doctors have called on the medical community to cease harvesting organs from patients whose hearts have stopped pulsating, saying that doctors are misleading families to believe that the patient has died when in fact their loved one is still alive. The...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
An Illinois senator is pushing legislation that would allow doctors to harvest organs from citizens who have not explicitly given consent for the procedure. The Journal Star reported Monday that a hearing was scheduled this week for Sen. Dale Risinger’s bill...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Bioethicists attempting to define people in supposed PVS as “brain dead” and source of organs Many people will have read the story of Rom Houben, the Belgium man who was diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state (PVS) for 23 years, but who in fact...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Comment: The real “miracle” may be that she was given sufficient time to recover! N. Valko RN LifeNews has repeatedly chronicled cases of people who were prematurely declared dead or said to be in supposedly persistent vegetative states who ultimately...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Many in the pro-life community are reflecting on two tragic stories with very different outcomes: the Munoz situation in Texas and the Benson situation in Canada. In both, the wife and mother was declared brain dead. In the Benson story, Iver Benson, son of Dylan...
