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Bill Peace in Hastings Center Bioethics Forum: “Euthanasia in Belgium: The Untold Story”

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…periencing “unbearable pain.” The Verbessem case has generated controversy worldwide. Multiple news reports characterized the deaths as a mercy killing. The message was clear: death is a logical and reasonable option if a person will become deaf-blind. By logical extension there are some disabilities that are a fate worse than death. One does not need to be terminally ill to be euthanized. Read more: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum…

Texas Mother Fights To Save Her 9-Month-Old Baby From Hospital’s Futility Judgment

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…, or even unconscious. She seems quite responsive. After her story hit the news over the weekend, a Texas court has reportedly granted a temporary restraining order and extension till November 22. Here’s a news video interviewing Tinslee’s mother: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExDUb-Hp0_c&fbclid=IwAR3IPUOB9ckJABJUdfa-LsiME5zIzI9zfXfSZx387cG6e-9SSN82QQPsRBE There’s also information on the Project TX Fragile Kids Facebook page. The National Counci…

Lisa Blumberg: Getting Beyond Advance Medical Directives

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…in-the-age-of-covid-19.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/27/opinion/coronavirus-doesnt-discriminate-neither-should-testing-treatment/?p1=Article_Feed_AuthorQuery 7. https://theconversationproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ConversationStarterGuide.pdf https://khn.org/news/article/advance-care-planning-palliative-care-experts-paradigm-shift/ https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-minimally-conscious.html Ibid. https:…

Lisa Blumberg: Recent Medscape Survey Indicates that Doctors are Divided on Life and Death Issues

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…espond to public opinion and shifts in sentiments but the reverse is also true, i.e. doctors have political and social clout on issues deemed medical in nature. To a large extent, the public takes its cue from them. We need to continue working with our allies in the medical community to educate health care professionals on the corrupting influences of legal assisted suicide. Should physician-assisted suicide be legal for patients in intractable pa…

More Updates on Amanda Baggs and Links to Other Bloggers

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…ation and get appropriate medical treatment has been shared here. The good news is that the news of her scheduled surgery was true and her feeding tube is now in place. Now the bad news: In “So today was interesting,” Amanda Baggs shares the her struggles with hospital staff over inappropriate “assistance” with a bedpan, and an early, ill-conceived discharge plan ‘decided’ without her and other “interesting” features of the day. In this tumblr pos…