Patients diagnosed with lung cancer who opted for "medical assistance in dying" often proceeded without consultation with their radiation oncologist or medical oncologist, a researcher said. In a Canadian study of 45 individuals diagnosed with lung cancer who used medical assistance in dying (also known as...
In response to an essay on the Victorian fantasy of a peaceful death, two letter writers (“Beyond the fantasy of a gentle death,” Aug. 29) called on the state Legislature to pass the proposed assisted suicide bill. Paula Bacon and Molly DeHaas Walsh describe the circumstances of...
Assisted suicide is already legal in California through the so-called End-of-Life Option Act, narrowly passed by the California Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Brown in 2015. The bill was opposed by both Democrat and Republican Assembly members and Senators, but passed during a contested Special...
Assisted suicide is already legal in California through the so-called End of Life Option Act, narrowly passed by the California Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2015. The bill received opposition from both Democrat and Republican Assembly members and state senators but was...
By Sharon Quick, MD American Academy of Medical Ethics One would think that Washington state legislators would prioritize saving lives, not making death more accessible, during a global pandemic that has already put too many people prematurely into graves. The House, however, is considering HB...
Assisted suicide threatens the most vulnerable in society, especially people with disabilities. I have Duchenne muscular dystrophy which, until recently, has been considered a “childhood disorder” because people who were born with it typically did not survive into adulthood. Despite my diagnosis, I have been...
The Hill By: JJ Hanson, Opinion Contributor When assisted suicide becomes accepted public policy it threatens the lives of everyone, especially the poor, elderly, mentally ill, disabled, and terminally ill. Why? Well, for starters, abuse is unavoidable and doctors are fallible. Assisted suicide policy also injects government...
For Immediate Release: September 27th, 2017 Patients Rights Action Fund Along With The National Alliance Against Legalizing Assisted Suicide Praise Introduction of Federal Legislation Opposing Legalization of Assisted Suicide “Many do not realize that people battling terminal illness, people with disabilities and others are inadvertently targeted by...
BY: Josefa Velasquez, New York Law Journal September 7, 2017 ALBANY - New York's highest court rejected the argument Thursday that mentally competent, terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, upholding lower court rulings. Read more. ...
As is always the case with the leftist radicals, they are never content with floating comfortably close to the islands of reason. No, for the bastion of conservatism is there. So, upon achieving a… Source: UCSF Medical Center Sued for Refusing to Perform Assisted Suicide on...