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Margo Naranjo’s feeding tube was set for removal this month and her funeral was set for early August. This has been paused for now. Click below to watch the latest update. Bobby Schindler said, "My heart goes out to the parents of Margo Naranjo, as my family knows the...
By Dave Andrusko On March 31, we will sadly commemorate the 19th anniversary of the grotesque death by starvation and dehydration of Terri Schindler Schiavo. When I say it’s hard to believe, I mean it two ways. Time has flown by; that’s part of me getting older. But...
By Michael Cook The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that court orders are not necessarily needed before withdrawing hydration and nutrition from a comatose patient. If doctors and the patient’s family agree that on-going treatment is not in his best interests, it may be...
By Alex Schadenberg, International Chair - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Vincent Lambert case in Reims France may be changing direction after the Reims Appeals Court appointed Vincent's wife, Rachel Lambert, as his primary guardian. Vincent Lambert became...
By Dave Andrusko Four years ago, we held our breath as Justice Baker of the British Court of Protection considered whether to extend the logic of starving and dehydrating patients in a so-called “persistent vegetative state” to someone diagnosed as being in a...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. We are posting elsewhere today a story about brain-injured patients who, despite predictions to the contrary, awaken. Typically, their families had been counseled to “allow” them to die--withdraw food and fluids. The following...
By Wesley J. Smith The principle that all patients must always receive humane care is under pronounced assault in bioethics, Indeed, some bioethicists now argue that nursing homes should be required to starve Alzheimer’s patients to death–even if they willingly eat,...
By Wesley J. Smith Sometimes I get emotional whiplash. On one hand, we see very prominent bioethicists say that we should starve Alzheimer’s patients to death if they asked to be killed in an advance directive. Compassion and Choices teaches oldsters how to...
By Dave Andrusko If you didn’t follow the terribly tragedy that was the unnecessary death of Terri Schiavo, it might shock you how much misinformation, snarky commentary, and relevant facts that did not make their way into Clyde Haberman’s 1,057-word-long Sunday...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition For many years I have stated that once death by dehydration becomes common people will react by demanding death by lethal injection. Death by dehydration is not a compassionate death. The...