by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
“A few weeks later, shortly before his death, he told me that he had taken my counsel to heart, and had re-established rapport with his son. He thanked me for having refused his earlier request for assisted suicide, and tearfully told me that these had been the...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Jack Kevorkian is to be freed June 1 [2007] after having served eight years in the poisoning of a man with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Known as Dr. Death, Kevorkian is about to get a new lease on life — one that may bring speaker fees of up to $100,000 as he...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Vermont House of Representatives voted against a proposal yesterday that would have made the state the second in the country to permit physician-assisted suicide, following Oregon. House members voted 82-63 against the measure euphemistically entitled...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Swiss assisted-suicide group Dignitas has been evicted from its operation site in a suburban area due to growing complaints from neighbors. For nine years the assisted-suicide clinic at Gertrudstrasse 84 received people three or four times a week — waiting...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Years ago, the head of the Oregon Medical Association admitted that it was a mistake when the group adopted a “neutral” position on physician-assisted suicide. When the Oregon referendum was voted on, the OMA changed its’ position to opposition to PAS but it...
