by APFLI | Oct 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Perhaps you have heard about the execution within the past week of Kelly Renee Gissendaner, who had been the only woman on death row in Georgia. Did you know that the drug she received – pentobarbital – is one of the drugs commonly used in doctor-assisted suicides?...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Oregon officials have released their tenth statewide report on the status of assisted suicide, and it shows the number of people who died is on the rise. The report showed the number of people getting drugs to use in taking their own lives is increasing as well. More...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
Research, recently published in the journal Psychophysiology, sheds new light on the condition known as the completely locked-in state (CLIS), a state where the patient’s total lack of muscle control makes communication virtually impossible. Patients totally paralyzed...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Responses - Declarations / DPA / Advance Directives / Talking Points
April 16 was National Health Care Decisions Day (NHDD), a day to “inspire, educate & empower the public and providers about the importance of advance care planning”. Many organizations and individuals are participating in this to raise awareness of how vital it is...
by APFLI | May 14, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Compassion & Choices (C&C), the national assisted-suicide activist group, has proposed that it join the lethal drug trade as the only US distributor of pentobarbital, the assisted-suicide drug of choice. In May, Drs. Nancy Crumpacker and Peter Reagan,...