by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Assisted Suicide Pushes Against Suicide Prevention Efforts The World Health Organization has published guidelines to help prevent suicide. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/09/12/assisted-suicide-pushes-against-suicide-prevention-efforts/ Health Plans Steer Patients...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Physicians, nationally and internationally, are reaffirming their individual and collective opposition to both euthanasia and assisted suicide NEJM Poll A recent survey of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) readers on the issue of doctor-prescribed suicide...
by APFLI | May 6, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Abstract Allowing physician-assisted suicide would be a grave mistake for four reasons. First, it would endanger the weak and vulnerable. Second, it would corrupt the practice of medicine and the doctor–patient relationship. Third, it would compromise the family and...
by APFLI | Apr 21, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment and care, and should not be withdrawn lightly; 2) morphine must not be used aggressively to hasten death when a patient is not near the time of death; and 3) pain...
by APFLI | Mar 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Trying to cash in on the widespread empathy generated by its media campaign featuring Brittany Maynard (the young woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon last year to die using the Death with Dignity law), the assisted-suicide activist group Compassion &...
