Network News

  • Britain has Legalised Assisted Suicide When No One was Looking
  • 9/05/2011
  • (Telegraph) - I read the splash in The Times today: prosecutors in this country are turning a blind eye to cases of assisted suicide. The number of incidents where someone helps a friend or relative take their lives is rising; but no one is being prosecuted.
  • New Beginnings Community Center - Reaching out to TBI Survivors
  • 9/04/2011
  • (nbli.org) - New Beginnings Community Center is a Long Island outpatient facility committed to providing treatment to individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other physical and cognitive disabilities.
  • Research Article was False When Published in 2007
  • 9/02/2011
  • (NRLC) - Euthanasia supporter and researcher, Margaret Battin, wrote an article that was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics in 2007 that suggested that there was no evidence that vulnerable groups were negatively affected by the legalization of euthanasia and/or assisted suicide.
  • Removal of Life Support May Occur Too Early, Some Researchers Say
  • 9/01/2011
  • (Health Watch MD) - There are notable differences in mortality rates after traumatic brain injury from hospital to hospital. The results of a new Canadian study have found that those differences may be attributable to individual hospital practices; specifically, how different hospitals handle the removal of life support from such patients.
  • How I Helped My Mother Starve to Death
  • 8/31/2011
  • (LifeSiteNews.com) - A recently retired New York Times reporter has penned a book in which she details how she followed through on a shocking pact to help her 88-year-old mother, Estelle, starve to death. In an excerpt from the book, "A Bittersweet Season," published recently in the Daily Mail, Jane Gross describes her mother's increasing dissatisfaction with life as her health deteriorated, and her mounting desire to die, despite the fact that she was not terminally ill.
  • Mercy Killing to Prevent Child Abuse
  • 8/30/2011
  • (Wall Street Journal) - Lawyers for a Manhattan executive charged with murdering her 8-year-old son are attempting an unusual defense: They claim Gigi Jordan had no choice but to kill the boy, and was completely in her right mind when she did it.
  • Remembering Terri's Dad on the 2nd Anniversary of His Passing
  • 8/29/2011
  • From September 1, 2009 (Baptist Press) - Robert S. Schindler Sr., who was at the center of a legal battle to save the life of his brain-injured daughter Terri Schindler Schiavo, died Aug. 29 in St. Petersburg, Fla., from heart failure.
  • 10-Yr-Old Dies After Being Being Dehydrated to Death by Parents
  • 8/28/2011
  • (Fox News) - A father and stepmother of twin boys were arrested Wednesday and charged with injury to a child after police said they denied one of the 10-year-old boys, Jonathan James, water over a period of five days as punishment. He died on July 25, MyFoxDallas-Fort Worth reports.
  • Victims Reunite After Harrowing Crash
  • 8/27/2011
  • (Toronto Sun) - Four years ago, Julie Anderson was told - bluntly - her 20-year-old son would not survive injuries suffered in his car crash. Grant Anderson, who was flown to London's Victoria Hospital after his van slammed into a transport truck, closing down Hwy. 402, was told his best case scenario was that he would be in a vegetative state for the remainder of his numbered days.
  • Legalizing Euthanasia by Omission - And Making It a Doctor's Order
  • 8/26/2011
  • (Culture of Life) - A problematic new end-of-life medical form is rapidly gaining ascendency in U.S. healthcare. It is called the "POLST" document. (In my own state of Colorado, it's called a MOST document.)