…when doctors ignore long-established guidelines regarding wait periods for comas in making a determination of persistent vegetative state. Eight days doesn’t come close. The Globe, Wesley and Pope all praise legal “reforms” enacted in the wake of Haleigh’s near-death experience. I’m not familiar with the final form of the second reform passed, regarding outside opinion on life and death decisions. The first version (and for all I know the final ve…
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…xpenses for 2018. Revenue Contributions $203,596 Expenses Salaries $141,949 Fringe $30,885 Travel $2,267 Staff Development $174 Supplies, Postage, Materials $881 Memberships, Subscriptions $2,675 Communications, Website $461 Consultants, Contractual Services $25,220 Miscellaneous $525 Total Expenses $205,037 Net Rev/Exp ($1,441) Year End Fund Balance $266,614…
…ge had sanctioned Haleigh’s right to die a “dignified” death, she began to come out of the coma and is alert and doing well at last report. Writing in the Oregon Law Review in 2006, Ouellette wrote out her analysis on “Disability and the End of Life.” In the paper, she accuses activists of conflating disability and terminal illness. Leaving a debunking of this aside, I think it’s worth noting that neither Ouellette nor other mainstream bioethicist…
…kind that I ever read was written by Derek Humphry and Mary Clement in the book Freedom to Die: people, politics, and the right-to-die movement. The book was written in 2000. The second-to-last chapter is titled “The Unspoken Argument.” This seems a very appropriate time to remind people of what Humphry and Clement had to say ten years ago: “Similar to other social issues, the right-to-die movement has not arisen separate and distinct from other c…
