…s being talented, intelligent, compassionate, and high achieving. What is truly heartbreaking about reading this paper is that the reader gets a glimpse not only of how hellish these individuals’ struggles with anorexia nervosa were, but simultaneously also how much of value all of these people had to live for and how deeply ambivalent and conflicted these individuals were about taking steps to end their lives. The haunting question remains – if t…
…cisions, or cost-benefit analysis, when the exact benefits and costs of a drug or treatment are known. Read this and all of the reports in NCD’s Bioethics and Report Series at https://ncd.gov/publications/2019/bioethics-report-series About NCD’s Bioethics and Disability Series NCD’s bioethics and disability report series focuses on how historical and current devaluation of the lives of people with disabilities by the medical community, researchers…
…the forms as a witness, pick up the prescription, and even administer the drug (since no independent witness is required). To be perfectly clear, the current bill being debated only discusses “self-administration” of the lethal drugs in the bill’s preamble; nowhere in the substantive provisions is the word mentioned. This law is also vague about who can access it, but it would be far easier for an eighteen year old with a serious medical condition…
…a Journal-Star: PEKIN – Karen McCarron was sentenced to 36 years in prison today for suffocating her autistic daughter in 2006 and a request for a new trial was denied. McCarron will have to serve 100 percent of the sentence and would be 75-years-old upon her release. She also was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine and was given 30 months of supervised release. She had faced between 20 years and 110 years in prison. McCarron’s attorney, Marc Wolfe, sai…
…ot Dead Yet are concerned with the American Medical Association’s decision today to continue studying the issue of physician assisted suicide. While the AMA’s longstanding policy against assisted suicide still stands, a simple affirmation of the policy was defeated in a 46-53% vote. The current AMA policy states, in essential part: “[P]ermitting physicians to engage in assisted suicide would ultimately cause more harm than good. “Physician-assiste…
