by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
If a patient is able to process oxygen from the lungs into the bloodstream, maintain a normal body temperature, digest food and expel waste, grow to normal adult size from the age of four to twenty, and even carry a child to term, can he or she be considered dead? Can...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
One of the medical world’s key diagnostic tools for determining “brain death” preliminary to organ retrieval, actually causes the severe brain damage it purports to determine, neurologist Dr. Cicero Coimbra told attendees at a conference last week....
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
An Illinois senator is pushing legislation that would allow doctors to harvest organs from citizens who have not explicitly given consent for the procedure. The Journal Star reported Monday that a hearing was scheduled this week for Sen. Dale Risinger’s bill...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The world of organ donation in Denmark was in turmoil. A documentary was aired which showed family members reacting in anguish to the news that their 19-year-old daughter was brain dead after a car accident, agreeing to donate her organs and allowing doctors to turn...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The practice of transplanting organs from patients who die after voluntary euthanasia is becoming more common in Belgium. A leading specialist, Dirk Van Raemdonck, told a conference in Brussels recently that there had already been nine cases. A year ago, a team at a...
