by APFLI | Apr 9, 2005 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
By Stephen Drake SPECIAL TO THE RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL (Nevada)Research Analyst for “Not Dead Yet,” a national disabilities group 11/22/2003 1. Do you support advance directives? Why or why not? We support detailed advance directives in regard to...
by APFLI | Jan 10, 2005 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Feeding Tube May Be Removed from Disabled Terri Schiavo 23Feb05 New Therapy Helps Patients To Swallow New Signs of Awareness Seen With Imaging in Some Brain-Injured Patients Groningen Protocol Can Be Used for Children And Retarded Adults Terminal...
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...