by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Not Dead Yet UK, launched on 12May06, is opposed to assisted suicide. Jane Campbell convened NDY UK, seeing the need for an umbrella group for the many voices in the disability community expressing fear and opposition to assisted suicide legislation. Diane Coleman is...
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 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Scottish assisted suicide bill was just defeated in Parliament by a vote of 82 – 36. The defeat of the assisted suicide bill was predicted by the Care Not Killing Alliance earlier in the week when they announced that 59 MSP’s opposed the bill with...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A leading Russian scientist and politician has warned that trafficking in human organs will explode in the country if legal euthanasia is introduced, Regnum News Agency reported earlier today. Sergey Kolesnikov is a member of the Russian State Duma, a doctor of...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
About half of the 300 deaths of infants under the age of one are the result of active life termination. This emerged from a study by Professor Veerle Provoost of the University of Ghent. Provoost examined the medical files of about 300 babies. She also interviewed the...
