by APFLI | May 19, 2016 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
This week, CBS’ 60 Minutes reported that FDA has just granted “breakthrough status” for an innovative treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer that was first reported by 60 Minutes on March 29, 2015. Brittany Maynard had glioblastoma and died by physician-assisted...
by APFLI | Nov 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The disability community has been trying to have honest end-of-life conversations for years. After all, we’re the real experts on the front lines of the health care system that serves (and, sadly, often underserves) dying people. But for the most part, the megaphone...
by APFLI | Jul 6, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Two people I know attempted suicide after my daughter Marie died by suicide using an assisted suicide technique she read about. N. Valko RN] Mount Mihara in Japan: the government had to erect a fence to discourage suicide jumpers like Kiyoko Matsumoto....
by APFLI | May 22, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old terminally ill woman who moved to Oregon to end her life under that state’s assisted dying law has changed the conversation around assisted suicide. Americans’ attitudes toward end-of-life decisions have been shifting over the past few...
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 &...
