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Hospice for Hemlock (Hospice and Right to Die Consultation) As Hospice professionals, we know just what Hospice care can, and can not do for terminally ill people. No one knows better than Hospice professionals about the suffering that so many endure, despite the greatest of Hospice care and support. Hospice For Hemlock is a group of Hospice Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Chaplains, Home Health Aids and Volunteers who believe that a terminally ill person has the right to choose a dignified, hastened death, over an existence of potential undue suffering. Hospice for Hemlock supports both the philosophy of Hospice and...

This won't be on her website yet http://www.cogforlife.org She just emaied it to me - enjoy. Yes they are fighting it...the attorneys for the husband are trying to sue the governor - they are trying anything they can pull - and they are scaring people into refusing treatment. Michael is still legal guardian so he has some rights - but he may lose them quickly (we hope!) The family has filed for a guardian et litem to be assigned at once...already rejected by one judge earlier today. That will change, mark my words!!! Meanwhile, she has an IV - not...

Editor’s note: The following commentary was taken from a forthcoming CBHD paper of the same title. The expanded, referenced paper will include sections on the medical, legal, compassion, and economic arguments used to further euthanatic thinking in pre-WWII Germany. A recurring theme in the encyclicals of John Paul II has been the necessity that we harness freedom to truth. Speaking from the vantage-point of one who has had intimate acquaintance with political tyranny, John Paul addresses those of us who live in a “free” society by reminding us that the wedding of democratic pluralism and moral relativism constitutes a thinly-veiled...