…e permitted to bring him home. I cannot get a handle on the situation from news reports. Is Charlie terminally ill or is he instead locked in? Do his doctors even know? Is he in irremediable pain or is his suffering intuited by his “undignified” circumstances? Would the new treatment, if given timely, have offered a hope of stabilizing his condition or giving him an increase in function, even though he still might have had a considerable disabilit…
…ith a history of depression and suicide attempts have received the lethal drugs. Pressure: Financial and emotional pressures can also make people choose death. Unnecessary: Everyone already has the right to refuse treatment and get full palliative care, including, if dying in pain, pain-relieving palliative sedation. No true safeguards: The safeguards are hollow, with no enforcement or investigation authority. Our quality of life underrated: Socie…
…ting physicians from criminal liability if they prescribe lethal doses of drugs will increase the risk of doctor assisted suicide amongst people with disabilities who may have years of life ahead of them. I further believe that de-criminalizing physician assisted suicide will foster perceptions that living with a significant disability involves suffering and inherently poor quality of life, and that removing the current legal proscription will ser…
…Sept. 11, 2001, death of their son, Edward Vanacore, 29, who worked at the World Trade Center. More recently, Thomas Vanacore was being treated for a late-stage cancer, and his wife had Alzheimer’s disease. Police received a 911 call about 3:30 p.m. Monday when a visiting nurse known to the couple reported the shooting. The nurse had received permission to run an errand, and returned to find the scene. Her name was not released, and she declined t…
…s refers to those willing as “Just 33 percent of Dutch doctors” while DutchNews.nl refers to “Only one third of Dutch doctors” (Emphasis added.) They seem… what? Relieved? Reassured? Or is it the rest of the world that they are trying to reassure? That one-third is really a very small and insignificant percentage of doctors? To me, the fact that one out of three doctors seems like an awful lot of doctors in the Netherlands are willing to go ahead…
