Assisted suicide is still suicide and July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Leaders of minority communities know firsthand the difficulties residents with income challenges face in obtaining adequate health care access. With legalized assisted suicide, this unequal access turns into a matter of life or...
Terminal prognosis are often wrong. Individuals outlive their diagnoses by months and even years. Assisted suicide legislation leads people to give up on treatment and lose good years of their lives. Jeannette Hall is an Oregon resident who was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 and told...
BELGIUM’S controversial euthanasia laws have seen three CHILDREN take their lives in recent years, new figures reveal. The tragic kids - all of whom are believed to have been terminally ill - are among thousands of people to have killed themselves since Belgium legalised euthanasia in...
There was a time — several months after J.J. Hanson was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, but several years before he died from it — when, he once said, he might have considered ending it all. The husband and father said in 2015 that the previous year,...
I am surprised, having dedicated my life to healing, that we in the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association did not reach consensus at our annual meeting in Chicago recently, to ratify the recommendation of our Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA)...
“Assisted Dying,” “Medical Aid in Dying” (MAID), “Physician Assisted Suicide”(PAS)—by whatever label we attach to it controversy continues to swirl around the practice of prescribing a lethal drug for a patient with a putatively terminal illness.1,2 (For now, let’s leave aside the point that physicians...
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In an age of “alternative facts”, it’s hard to sort out myth from reality when it comes to so-called ‘medical-aid-in-dying’ (MAID)—also called physician assisted suicide (PAS). By whatever label we attach to it, this practice involves a physician’s prescribing a lethal drug for a patient...
End of life care can be a difficult topic, but there are some things you should know to make the process easier. There are a lot of misconceptions about hospice care. First Choice Home Health Services says its goal is to improve the quality of life, not...
A new report shows about half of seriously ill Californians have access to palliative care. The number is an improvement over 4 years ago, but some doctors say the state could still do a better job of caring for these patients. Read more at Southern California...