by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
After a European court issued a ruling saying a disabled patient can be starved to death against his will, his parents are vowing to fight it. Vincent Lambert, a tetraplegic patient who has been in a state of minimal consciousness in hospital for six years following a...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
According to a study by the Coma Science Group of the University of Liège, Belgium, up to half the patients in an acute vegetative state regain some level of consciousness. Results of the study are also consistent with previous studies showing that at least 40% of...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
His feeding tube had been removed. Doctors said he had only a small chance of recovery. His wife pulled his feeding tube after a week. But Friday, Jesse Ramirez walked out of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. It has been an amazing five months for the US...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Jocelyn Downie, the Canada Research Chair of Health Law and Policy said at an End-of-Life Ethics & Decision-Making conference at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg yesterday that doctors do not have the legal right to withdraw life-sustaining medical treatment...
by APFLI | Apr 9, 2005 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Morality is a code of conduct which is followed by members of a civilized society. Here are some practical “rules” for making moral decisions regarding the provision or withdrawal of food and fluids, whether the patient is fed orally or through a tube:...
