by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The VT House Human Services Committee heard testimony recently on bill H.168, the proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Much of the testimony was about patients with overwhelming suffering during the dying process. These are sad and tragic cases; those...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Oregon is the only state in the nation to have legalized assisted suicide, but don’t call the grisly practice by that name anymore. The state’s health department has decided to change the wording of the phrase when referring to the state law — a move...
by APFLI | May 22, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old terminally ill woman who moved to Oregon to end her life under that state’s assisted dying law has changed the conversation around assisted suicide. Americans’ attitudes toward end-of-life decisions have been shifting over the past few...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The religious beliefs of doctors strongly influence the decisions they make when caring for terminally ill patients, according to research published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Dr. Clive Seale, a professor at the Centre for Health Sciences, Barts and the London...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
We hear often from assisted suicide advocates that most who die by doctor prescribed death in Oregon were in hospice–as if that makes it okay. I have indicated here and elsewhere, that this merely means assisted suicide facilitators have interfered with proper medical...
