…or their representatives have been totally absent from this debate. In June, 2010, a reporter for a San Francisco online news site managed to get reactions from two professionals connected to organizations that seek to prevent and reduce the number of suicides in the US. In that story, the reporter somehow managed to get Lanny Berman, president of the International Association of Suicide Prevention to condemn billboards being put up by FEN across…
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…log about the New Mexico case (See http://notdeadyet.org/2012/07/ndy-quoted-in-article-on-new-mexico-assisted-suicide-case.html), the Connecticut court viewed this as more appropriate for legislative than judicial action, stating: Legislative determination is particularly important given the significant medical legal and ethical concerns about legalized physician assisted suicide that have been raised across the country. Among the other difficult…
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…R, Organ Donation After Cardiac Death, N Engl J Med 357;3, p. 212, July 19, 2007 pp. 210-211.) The public comment notice acknowledges that preliminary comments urged revisions to: “[e]xplicitly endorse in the Proposal the longstanding ethical safeguard that the donor family not be approached about organ donation until the time at which a decision to withdraw life sustaining measures has been agreed to by the patient’s next of kin, … Gone is the c…
