by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Jocelyn Downie, the Canada Research Chair of Health Law and Policy said at an End-of-Life Ethics & Decision-Making conference at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg yesterday that doctors do not have the legal right to withdraw life-sustaining medical treatment...
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...