by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
POLST is being proposed in a number of states across the US. In North Carolina, the form has undergone pilot tests, and the North Carolina Medical Society is considering its adoption. The purpose of this letter is to: Review the history of POLST on a national level...
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 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In a 2006 statement, Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor of England has warned doctors that they may face prison sentences if they refuse to starve and dehydrate patients to death. Criminal charges of assault could be laid against doctors or nurses who refuse to allow...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
“A few weeks later, shortly before his death, he told me that he had taken my counsel to heart, and had re-established rapport with his son. He thanked me for having refused his earlier request for assisted suicide, and tearfully told me that these had been the...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Scottish assisted suicide bill was just defeated in Parliament by a vote of 82 – 36. The defeat of the assisted suicide bill was predicted by the Care Not Killing Alliance earlier in the week when they announced that 59 MSP’s opposed the bill with...
