I have an advanced neuromuscular condition and must use breathing support with a mask 18 hours a day. As a severely disabled person who depends on life-sustaining treatment, I would be able to qualify for assisted suicide at any time where it is legal. If I...
Randy Hillard has traveled more in the past eight years than he has his entire life. But if he went through with his plan to go to Switzerland in 2010, those trips wouldn’t have happened. That's because eight years ago, Hillard was determined to kill himself...
The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs has released its new report and recommends once again that the AMA retain its position in opposition to assisted suicide. At the AMA's annual meeting in June of 2018, the House of Delegates referred CEJA's report back...
Hawaii health officials are urging health care organizations to prepare for the law allowing doctors to fulfill requests from terminally ill patients to prescribe life-ending medication. Hawaii Medical Association Executive Director Chris Flanders says most doctors seem reluctant to participate. Read more at Hawaii New Now...
The medical profession must do better when it comes to palliative care and hospice. Sadly, patients and their families are often unprepared for the final stages of the dying process. As a result, many wait too long before utilizing hospice and palliative services, which can...
Delegates from the American Academy of Family Physicians...
It’s not a dirty word, but no one wants to hear it. The word is hospice. Hospice refers to end of life care. The objective of hospice is to guarantee that a person facing the end of their life can do it with dignity and without pain....
A team at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children has developed a draft policy on doctor-assisted dying that applies to youth aged 18 and older — the legal age restriction for “medical-aid in dying,” or MAID, in Canada. However, the policy was also developed “with an...
This theme was selected following an open consultation with people directly affected by serious illness, WHPCA members and supporters, and global hospice and palliative care advocates. We chose ‘Because I Matter’ as this year’s theme, because it centres on the lived experience of people affected by...
A recent story written by supporters of H1194, which would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts, failed to disclose the bill’s many dangers. Opportunities for abuse are rampant in every bill to legalize assisted suicide and vulnerable people are thereby placed at risk. The economically disadvantaged will...