…ity twelve times. (7) Entitled Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) Activity Book, the book calls the death inducing drugs “medicine” and never uses the term euthanasia. Yet it is candid in stating that “A doctor or nurse practitioner (a nurse with special training) uses medicines to stop the person’s body from working.” The person is given three drugs by IV. The first calms them. The second puts them in a coma. The third is what does it. The book s…
…use, rather than as a third-party company they outsource potential guests’ travel arrangements to. While the “travel team” did in fact contact me on Wednesday evening, to set up the travel arrangements, they never contacted me back with any sort of followup information, let alone finalized details of the travel plans. After not hearing from anyone connected with the show at all on Thursday, other than the field producer, I began to have concerns a…
…rector of the American Suicide Prevention Foundation, and co-editor of the book, “The Case Against Assisted Suicide”; Kathleen Foley – Physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and co-editor of the book, “The Case Against Assisted Suicide”; Ferdinando L. Mirarchi – Author of studies on physician withholding of life-sustaining treatment without patient consent; Ezekiel Emanuel – Author of “Four Myths About Doctor-Assisted Suicide,”[24] i…
…ith each other. At ACPEL 2012, we will therefore hear from a wide range of international speakers who will provide us with the latest developments and practices in advance care planning, end of life care, and its associated disciplines.” Coleman’s remarks will describe some actual case examples of issues that concern the disability community, such as “Terrie’s Story”, an online article by a quadriplegic woman about how doctors pressured her family…
…educe hospitalizations and healthcare costs by encouraging individuals to “choose” death over treatment. The method by which the “Conversation Ready” Project proposes to influence people are set forth in The Conversation Project, a website listed on page 57 of the state toolkit for grant applicants. The Conversation Project makes it clear that the fear of living with a disability is what drives the seemingly innocuous decision-making process desig…
