by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
“A few weeks later, shortly before his death, he told me that he had taken my counsel to heart, and had re-established rapport with his son. He thanked me for having refused his earlier request for assisted suicide, and tearfully told me that these had been the...
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 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...
