by APFLI | Sep 14, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
[Comment: Unfortunately, some groups and individuals against physician-assisted suicide still cite hospice as the simple solution to physician-assisted suicide while some of us who have experience in hospice have warned for years about the progression of corrupting...
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 10, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A British woman was given the mandatory minimum sentence (at least 9 years) for smothering a man to death. Heather Davidson (54) pled guilty to smothering David Paterson (81) to death on February 11, 2015. According to the York Press Davidson claimed that she was...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As state legislators across America grapple with proposed laws on euthanasia, South Dakota State Rep. Steve Hickey (R-Sioux Falls) – facing a terminal illness himself – has no qualms sharing exactly where he stands on the issue. Yesterday, Rep. Hickey sent a letter in...
