by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
First 150 words of the full text: An influential report released in 1983 defined life-sustaining therapies as “all health care interventions that have the effect of increasing the life span of the patient.”1 This definition is highly inclusive: aspirin for...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Terminally-ill patient Leslie Burke, 46, has lost the last stage of a legal challenge for the right to receive nutrition and drink when he is close to death, his lawyers said. Burke, who has a degenerative brain condition, fears artificial nutrition could be stopped...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
At an international meeting of euthanasia and assisted suicide organizations [Toronto 1-9September06] spokesmen from the US-based group, Compassion and Choices, admitted that their Client Support Program is an active assisted suicide program. They revealed that...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A 23-yr-old woman, supposedly in a “vegetative state” stunned doctors by responding to certain commands asked of her. The results have been displayed in brain imaging showing more is going on in her head than meets the eye. Although the unnamed woman...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state. But across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking … a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough....
