by APFLI | Mar 30, 2005 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Girl Fed Through Feeding Tube for 7 Years Now Eating Orally Comment: This story points out the inherent discrimination involved in the feeding tube issue. Obviously, the feeding tube was not considered extraordinary, risky “life support” for this little...
by APFLI | Jan 5, 2005 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Disabled Woman Starved to Death Death by Committee: What the Groningen Protocol Says About Our World, and Where It Might Lead Next Vermont Poll Showing Majority Back Assisted Suicide Found Faulty DISABLED WOMAN STARVED TO DEATH – Three family members were...
by APFLI | Oct 13, 2004 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Terri Shiavo’s Fight for Life Continues Royal College of Nursing Confirms Opposition to Assisted Dying Bill and Calls for Improved Palliative Care New Pain Drug From Puffer Fish May Nix Reason to Resort to Assisted Suicide: Neurotoxin Could Revolutionize...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2004 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
By Dave Andrusko Although her case is drenched in arcane legal language about separation of powers and privacy, the bottom line for 40-year-old Terri Schindler-Schiavo is frightfully simple: will the seven judges of the Florida Supreme Court render a verdict that...
by APFLI | Sep 9, 2004 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Seventeen (17) national disability organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief, the third disability brief in the case. These groups are concerned that the critical implications for our individual rights in the health-care system have been obscured by political...