by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Warning given to avoid use of pro-death language such as terms “euthanasia”, “assisted suicide” This past weekend’s International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide hosted by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Canada (EPCC)...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED, Uncategorized
According to a study presented at the May 2014 American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Diego, Massachusetts General Hospital’s ethics committee has had a policy allowing unilateral do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders since 2006. These orders, as defined...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Quebec Law in 2014 Requires All Hospitals, Nursing Homes to Offer Euthanasia Late last week, a radical new euthanasia bill passed into law by a free vote in the National Assembly in Quebec…...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A Dutch expert on euthanasia has not only stopped supporting the death practice and the euthanasia law for which he campaigned, but he has made the reasons for his about-face public—something usually frowned upon in Dutch circles. Professor Theo Boer held a unique...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Physicians, nationally and internationally, are reaffirming their individual and collective opposition to both euthanasia and assisted suicide NEJM Poll A recent survey of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) readers on the issue of doctor-prescribed suicide...