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 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The plight of elderly Americans is a top concern for the Center for a Just Society because this population is at significant risk of abuse and neglect. In my law practice, I have spent decades representing elderly men and women who have endured unspeakable nursing...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
His feeding tube had been removed. Doctors said he had only a small chance of recovery. His wife pulled his feeding tube after a week. But Friday, Jesse Ramirez walked out of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. It has been an amazing five months for the US...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Terminally-ill patient Leslie Burke, 46, has lost the last stage of a legal challenge for the right to receive nutrition and drink when he is close to death, his lawyers said. Burke, who has a degenerative brain condition, fears artificial nutrition could be stopped...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Diane Coleman is president and CEO of Not Dead Yet, a national disability organization that opposes legalization of assisted suicide. Not Dead Yet is based in Rochester. People are often surprised to learn that all of the major national disability rights groups that...
