by APFLI | May 19, 2016 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
This week, CBS’ 60 Minutes reported that FDA has just granted “breakthrough status” for an innovative treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer that was first reported by 60 Minutes on March 29, 2015. Brittany Maynard had glioblastoma and died by physician-assisted...
by APFLI | Sep 30, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
“If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you . . .” (“If” by Rudyard Kipling) Yesterday’s decision in the case of John Jay Hooker, et al v. Tennessee, handed down by Chancellor Carol L. McCoy, is...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
After Montana joined Washington and Oregon in legalizing physician-assisted suicide late last year, Montanans trying to kill themselves are having trouble finding a doctor to fill their “exit prescriptions.” The Denver-based assisted suicide advocacy group...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A Connecticut trial court judge rejected a lawsuit by euthanasia advocates seeking to overturn the Connecticut ban on assisted suicide. had the lawsuit been successful, it could have made the New England state the fourth after Oregon, Washington, and Montana to allow...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Philip Nitschke, an Australian doctor who promotes suicide as a way to die has introduced a new “peaceful pill” plan to advocates at a conference, touting the pill for its accessibility – and legality. In a report on Canadian Television, Dr. Philip...
