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British Medical Association considers terminal sedation for large numbers of non-dying patients. By Peter Saunders Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of the Christian Medical Fellowship and is reposted with Dr. Saunders’ permission. Is it justifiable to withdraw...
By Wesley J. Smith First, bioethicists said people should be able to refuse being “hooked up to machines” even if that meant almost certain death. Then, they pushed that meme farther, arguing that the right of refusal (including by surrogates) should also include...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An article written last week by Janene Pieters and published in the NL Times reports A group of 220 Dutch doctors took out an advertisement in NRC [a daily evening newspaper] on Friday to show...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Over the weekend the Daily Mail reported that Colin Brewer, a British psychiatrist who had lost his medical license, had approved the assisted suicide deaths of six people with dementia. “Five...
By Wesley J. Smith People have the right to refuse medical treatment, including in an advance directive. But they do not–and most definitely, should not–have the right to force caregivers to starve them to death when sustenance is not medically delivered, e.g., spoon...
By Nancy Valko My mother developed Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia, in her early 60s. Later on, she was diagnosed with an aggressive thyroid cancer that required a surgical opening in her throat called a tracheostomy so that she would not...
By Alex Schadenberg, International Chair - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Netherlands government has decided to extend euthanasia to people with severe dementia who are incompetent to request death by lethal injection, if the person requested euthanasia while...
By Michael Cook Sorry, we missed this euthanasia story from the Netherlands. It deserves to be more widely known. An 80-year-old Dutch woman suffering from dementia was euthanized on April 24 after a sternly-worded court order addressed to her nursing home. The woman,...
By Michael Cook Helping patients with dementia will probably be one of the biggest human dignity issues of our century, as the proportion of elderly grows across the globe. It seems disgraceful to warehouse them in nursing homes, but often there are few...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. We are approaching the fourth anniversary (can it be four years?!) since “Kay” passed away and three years since I wrote about our experience with her. Kay made such a lasting impression on my wife and myself that periodically I...