Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Last Acts (ACT again) Last Acts=Partnership for Caring/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Connection
Choice in Dying Choice In Dying
... We are now Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying. Click
here to get to our new website. www.partnershipforcaring.org:
www.choices.org/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages
National Hospice Organization check link redirect
Society of Health and Human Values-Society for Bioethics Consultation Task Force
National Consensus Project NCP - Ira Byock Partnership for Caring
Project on Death in America Research and Policy Organization Links
Florida Partnership for End of Life Care Coalition Sites - 21 Florida Sites
*Florida Partnership for End of Life Care Site with Links that Tie Many of the Organizations Together
About Rallying Points (connection Ira Byock (MVQOLI), Midwest Bioethics Center and Last Acts)
From the.... Hospice is for Caring ... or is it for Killing?
How did this situation arise? Hospice chairman of the board at the time, George Felos, is the attorney representing Michael Schiavo's efforts to kill Terri. When Michael Schiavo contacted Felos, George had just the place to kill Terri: his very own hospice! So, he stepped down from the board, temporarily of course, until the legal battle to kill Terri is over. After the legal battle, we're sure good old right-to-kill-patients-advocate George will be right back on the board. George (Felos) is a student of Ira Byock, MD (a well known hospice physician) who advocates adding "aid in dying" (through terminal sedation) to the mix of "services" provided by hospices.
Dr. Ira Byock, long time palliative care physician and advocate for improved end-of-life care, and a past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, provides written resources and referrals to organizations, web sites and books to empower persons with life threatening illness and their families to live fully.
Felos mentions Byock in some of his early writings.
The following site is long gone (December '03) and will not copy to post:
Transforming the Culture of Dying PDIA
Profiles of PDIA-Funded Researchers and Projects
Exerpt: (located below midpage)
Ira Byock, M.D.
Barbara K. Spring, M.D.
As a hospice physician and medical director, Dr. Ira Byock is only too aware of the difference between a "good" death and a "bad" death, and the fact that the latter far outnumber the former. But instead of working only with the medical profession to reverse this equation, he and gerontologist Dr. Barbara K. Spring set out to engage an entire Montana town in examining the dying process and making it better. The Missoula Demonstration Project: The Quality of Life's End is the most ambitious effort of its kind in the United States. Modeled after a famous long-term heart disease study which collected data on an entire community, the 15-year Missoula Demonstration Project aims not only to improve the quality of life's end in Missoula, but to stimulate other efforts throughout the country. Organized in 1996, and overseen by an international advisory committee, the project is engaged in several studies to understand people's experiences, attitudes, values, customs and concerns about death. By looking at 250 families which experienced a death within a one-year period, for instance, and by gathering data in all health-care settings that treat or care for dying people, researchers hope to create, as Byock puts it, an "intensive, high-definition picture of dying, death and bereavement in Missoula." "Our approach," says Barbara Spring, "is to focus on what people seem to worry about the most-pain, the length of the dying process, isolation, and other things that make them miserable."
Bioethics Groups (Midwest Bioethics Center included)
Rand Center to Improve Care of the Dying
Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care
Coalition Activities
http://www.web-yoda.com/floridapartners/coalitionactivities.htm#a13
Pinellas County Coalition
Mike Bell
(727) 586-4432
mikebell@thehospice.org
Accomplished Activities
· Announced the Day of Decision (proclaimed by Governor Bush) in local
newspapers with a mail-in coupon for advance directive packets. Over
1,200 advance directive packets were requested and distributed.
· Conducted follow-up visits to the 38 congregations who are partners in
The Hospice's Caregivers United program encouraging them to post
"Isn't It Time We Talk About It" advance directive posters and distribute
book marks promoting the Series.
· Distributed "Grief in the Workplace" brochures to the top 117 employers in
Pinellas County.
Upcoming Activities
· Offering on-site counseling, support groups, and reviewing end-of-life
care services available to employees and their families.
Instead of bothering to do that, many of those orgs you listed, ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN MAKING A NEW CLASS OF AMERICANS called THE DYING and who decides who THE DYING ARE?
judges, the aclu and attorneys who run murder franchises, formerly known as estate attorneys.
Terri is NOT DYING but they're sure trying to starve her to death as their prize, as their precedent to SPREAD EUTHANASIA FROM NOT ONLY THE TERMINALLY ILL BUT TO INCLUDE THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED ADULTS AND CHILDREN.
EUTHANASIA IS ILLEGAL IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA BUT IT'S HAPPENING. THERE IS NO LAW ENFORCEMENT OVERSIGHT. That's why we are here helping Terri.