…ly member). The pressure surrounding organ harvesting was a factor in the gruesome death of Ruben Navarro. Organ donation has also been an element of more than one “rush to judgment” case – or, as doctors prefer to call them “miracle recoveries” – more on this topic here and here. Whether or not the sentiments expressed by Laureys are true – and I suspect that there are large numbers of ethicists and physicians who would deny that it’s the case –…
…y because what this legislation does is it changes the way healthcare is structured. What it adds is a treatment option, I guess you would say, for death. There has never been before this type of legislation, a medical practice that was codified in law. And then in the medical system where the death of a patient is the outcome. And so it changes the doctor-patient relationship. It changes the way insurance and financial reimbursement and such work…
…ded who ought not to be included in the list, nor paid for as dead; but I trust you will not overlook my instructions to you on quitting Cassel, and that you will not have tried by human succor to recall the life of the unfortunates whose days could not be lengthened but by the loss of a leg or an arm. That would be making them a pernicious present, and I am sure they would rather die than live in a condition no longer fit for my service. I do not…
…ecific definitions used in a bill when it comes to applying it in the real world as law. Make no mistake. This bill, if passed, will guarantee an easy suicide to just about any person with diagnoses of quadriplegia, spinal muscular atrophy, HIV/AIDS, and many other conditions disabilities. Nothing to help people who could have many happy years with the right supports – just an easy and cheap out. –Stephen Drake We’ve heard that the judiciary commi…
…om the column: Who was Debbie? If you missed her death notice, she was the world’s oldest polar bear at Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo, who died at 41 years of age. Due to a number of strokes, zoo keepers decided Debbie had suffered enough and painlessly ended her life. But unlike the polar bear, a friend of mine recently experienced an agonizing death which has prompted this column. I’ve often written that if I were allowed a committee to overse…
