Euthanasia and other end-of-life issues:

Palliative Care

• Palliative care is changing, and not all for the good.
  "Warning: Who's Leading Palliative Care Now?" looks at the Center to Advance Palliative Care's program to put palliative care in hospitals. Who is leading the training? Assisted-suicide advocates and futilitarians.
  
  
• Brochure:
  "Medical Decisions at the End of Life"

Advance Directives

• "Oregon's POLST in North Carolina" answers the question "what is POLST; what states use POLST?" and provides a sample form. (June 2006)
  
  
• LifeTree's statement concerning S1046, Advance Directives" (July 2007)) includes background on the MOST and POLST (Physician's Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) forms. POLST — a product of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at OHSU — was devised as part of Oregon's health care rationing experiment, and is promoted by Oregon's euthanasia movement.
  
  
• Myths vs. fact on Living Wills and POLST (July 2007).
  
  
• Practical application of ethical principles: Why North Carolina's standard living will is fundamentally flawed because it invites choices which violate the moral natural law. (September, 2007)
  
  
• At LifeIssues.net (not affiliated with LifeTree.org), is an excellent article by Nancy Valko, RN:
  Whatever Happened to Common Sense at the End of Life?

Organ Donation

• LifeTree's statement concerning H1372, Organ and Tissue Donation (6/22/07)
• "Excision of Vital Organs is Imposed Death" — Paul Byrne, MD, discusses the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA), warns against over-zealous organ harvesters, and suggests a few ways patients can protect themselves and loved ones. [At the RenewAmerica.us site; not affiliated with LifeTree.org]

History of Euthanasia in United States since 1985: Two Decades to an American Culture of Death

• Long version
• Two-page summary (PDF)

Funding:

Who's funding whom in right-to-die and end-of-life.

LifeTree's guide to end-of-life terminology

Hospice is supposed to help terminally ill patients live comfortably during their last weeks or months of life, but some hospices have been invaded by euthanasia advocates. In this article the Medical Director of Hospice of Wake County, NC describes the case of a mentally ill man in Rex Hospital's Hospice Unit. They sedated the victim to unconsciousness, then deprived him of food and water until he died. The man was not terminally ill, and apparently had not expressed a desire to die. They call it "palliative sedation." So far, criminal charges have not been filed. Read the article (and other articles by the same author.

Stem Cells, Cloning, IVF

Stem Cell and Cloning Battle in North Carolina (LifeTree newsletter, February 2007)

"The Immorality of In vitro Fertilization" by John B. Shea, MD FRCP(C)

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