by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[This article appears flippant. However, the information is worth ignoring the flippancy.] Electric circuits will break your heart every time. Take my cellphone (please): it went out in the rain a few weeks ago and then lay neglected in a sopping wet coat pocket...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
[Comment: The basic problem is this quote: “The hardest choices center on when quality of life will be so diminished that death is preferable.” The real issue is about causing or hastening death, not whether predicted quality of life is “good...
by APFLI | May 10, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Actually, this new study is not really news but the media has been fighting stories of coma/”vegetative” recoveries for years in favor of the “right to die” for people like Terri Schiavo and Nancy Cruzan. Actually, during the Nancy Cruzan food and water case...
by APFLI | Apr 8, 2005 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Palliative care is aimed at the relief of suffering and improving the quality of life for persons who are living with or dying from advanced illness or are bereaved. It affirms life and regards dying as a normal process. It neither hastens nor postpones death. It...
by APFLI | Apr 8, 2005 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
"The administration of food and liquids, even artificially, is part of the normal treatment always due to the patient when this is not burdensome for him: their undue suspension could be real and properly so-called euthanasia." Decisions affecting treatment...
