by APFLI | Nov 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In 2015, in Oregon, a bill has been introduced to expand the definition of ‘terminal disease’ in the state’s doctor-prescribed suicide law. Under the proposal, a patient who is predicted to die within one year — rather than the current six...
by APFLI | Nov 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Update: Oregon & Washington Suicide Study A suicide study, published in the Southern Medical Journal, found an increase (6.3%) in total suicides, with a larger increase (14.5%) among individuals 65 or older, in Oregon and Washington after doctor-assisted suicide...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In 1997, Oregon became the first government in the world to legalize assisted suicide, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal prescriptions to terminally ill patients. Since then, 1,173 people have received a lethal prescription, and 752 of them have taken the...
by APFLI | Jun 10, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Almost 2% of ALL who die in Belgium… The bottom line of euthanasia consciousness is that killing is splendid way to end human suffering. Advocates say it is also about “choice.” But once one accepts the first destructive premise, what’s choice got to do with it?...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A new analysis of Dutch doctors by researchers in the Netherlands finds that they are more frequently using euthanasia to kill sick children, sometimes taking the country’s assisted suicide laws as far as they will allow. The European nation legalized euthanasia...
