by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A motion to push the British Medical Association to take a “natural” stance on euthanasia and assisted suicide was voted down at the doctors’ union annual meeting in Bournemouth on Wednesday. The motion was put forward by activists as part of a larger effort to loosen...
by APFLI | May 11, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Retired politician Bob Rae used the occasion of a friend’s apparent suicide to call on Canada to establish a national suicide prevention plan. Chris Peloso was Rae’s friend and well known in Ontario’s political circles as the husband to George Smitherman, a former...
by APFLI | May 6, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A Swiss study, published in the journal European Psychiatry, found that “witnessing death by assisted suicide impacts the mental health of family members and friends.” Researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey of 85 family members or close friends who witnessed...
by APFLI | May 6, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A minority of Dutch physicians, about one in three, would consider granting a request for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) for a patient with early dementia or psychiatric disease, or one who is just “tired of living” (without severe...
by APFLI | May 6, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Abstract Allowing physician-assisted suicide would be a grave mistake for four reasons. First, it would endanger the weak and vulnerable. Second, it would corrupt the practice of medicine and the doctor–patient relationship. Third, it would compromise the family and...
