Push for the Right to Die Grows in the Netherlands
by Dave Jolly
AMSTERDAM — It was 1989, and Dr. Petra de Jong, a Dutch pulmonologist, was asked for help by a terminally ill patient, a man in great pain …

** Argentina backs 'dignified death' ** The Argentine Senate passes a law that gives terminally ill patients the right to refuse treatment.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/world-latin-america-18016902 >

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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION MAY 15, 2012

Advance Directives in Community Patients With Heart Failure FULL ARTICLE:

http://m.circoutcomes.ahajournals.org/content/early/2012/05/10/CIRCOUTCOMES.

112.966036.full.pdf#page=1

Background—Although it is recommended that all patients with heart failure
(HF) have advance directives (AD) in place before the …

England is facing the same EOL issues as we are:

GPs have been urged to do more to ensure patients’ end-of-life wishes are respected, after a poll found more than a third had never initiated talks with patients about end-of-life …

For the past 10 years, the Metta Institute End-of-Life Practitioner Program ( http://mettainstitute.org/EOLoverview.html) has provided an unparalleled educational opportunity for hundreds of healthcare professionals and other caregivers. The Metta Institute has a highly regarded, national reputation as an innovative source …

This article was taken from The Guardian. It can be found here:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/05/assisted-dying-humane-law.

The law on assisted suicide is incoherent for both those with a terminal illness and their loved ones

The Commission on Assisted Dying, which I chair, …

www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/01/02/bise0103.htm

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Company accused of ripping off Medicare hospice benefits – Sacramento Living – Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee — from   via SacConnect.us <http://mee.bo/yhELep> 

WASHINGTON — A national hospice company improperly cycled patients through nursing homes…

I receive postings from a U.S.-based pediatric palliative care listserv®.  A recent message said (paraphrasing): `after two decades working in pediatric palliative care, I see increasing numbers of parents resisting an end-of-life prognosis.  This leads to excessive intervention, harming the …

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