by APFLI | Jul 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Euthanasia laws in the Netherlands and Belgium took effect in 2002. What has occurred since that time is alarming to many inside and outside those countries. The Netherlands: A judge in Utrecht ordered the euthanasia death of an 80-year-old woman with dementia despite...
by APFLI | Jun 15, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
[Comment: The idea of using assisted suicide/euthanasia victims for organ harvesting is not a new one. It was brought up in 1998 by Jack Kevorkian when he offered the kidneys of one of his assisted suicide victims to organ transplantation organizations. Note this...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Regional Oversight Boards for Euthanasia indicated there were 1,933 euthanasia deaths in 2005, up from 1,886 in 2004 and 1,815 in 2003. However, the agency also said that only about half of all likely euthanasia deaths are reported to the federal government. The...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
Homeless and illegal immigrants are being denied needed hospital care because they are uninsured, according to 2 Rotterdam doctors who have been treating 20+ uninsured patients /week. In an articlc in the Dutch medical journal Medisch Contact, the doctors wrote that...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
This is an excellent column by Colleen Carroll Campbell, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). Apparently, a teenage “suicide craze” has hit the Netherlands and the government wonders why. But Campbell knows. The Dutch do “not seem...
