Nevada Legalizes Starving and Dehydrating Incapacitated Patients

This article was published by National Review online on October 7, 2019 Wesley J Smith By Wesley J Smith This is stunning. Nevada has passed a law allowing competent persons to sign an advance directive instructing that all food and water be withheld if they become incapacitated by dementia. In other words, the law allowsContinue reading “Nevada Legalizes Starving and Dehydrating Incapacitated Patients”

Vincent Lambert: Death by discrimination

This article was published by Toujours Vivant – Not Dead Yet on July 16, 2019. Taylor Hyatt By Taylor Hyatt – Policy Analyst & Outreach Coordinator, Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet Vincent Lambert died recently. For the past few weeks, all eyes have been on the French courts as they determined his fate. Mr. Lambert wasContinue reading “Vincent Lambert: Death by discrimination”

Woman pressured to approve death by sedation / dehydration for her Aunt.

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Alex Schadenberg Today I spoke with a woman who is the Power of Attorney for her 89 year-old aunt, who is currently in a Toronto hospital. The niece called EPC because she is upset about the lack of care that her Aunt is receiving.Her Aunt went to theContinue reading “Woman pressured to approve death by sedation / dehydration for her Aunt.”

Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons

This article was published by National Review online on July 12, 2019. Wesley Smith By Wesley J Smith Vincent Lambert is dead. The forty-two-year-old Frenchman, who breathed his last yesterday in Reims, didn’t die by accident. It wasn’t “his time.” He died slowly, over nine days, by forced dehydration—a demise that causes radical drying ofContinue reading “Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons”

10 reasons why Vincent Lambert should live

Vincent Lambert is being dehydrated to death. Christophe Foltzenlogel has been a legal expert with the European Center for Law and Justice. The determination of Vincent Lambert’s parents to save their son’s life, despite his heavily disabled condition, arouses admiration but also a lot of misunderstanding and contempt. Vincent Lambert ordered to die by French highContinue reading “10 reasons why Vincent Lambert should live”

Vincent Lambert ordered to die by France’s highest appeal court.

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director – Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionSign the petition: Protect Vincent Lambert’s Life. Vincent Lambert On Friday, June 28, France’s highest appeal court ordered that treatment and care, including food and fluid, be withdrawn from Vincent Lambert, a man who was cognitively disabled in a motorcycle accident injury in 2008. On May 20, Euro newsContinue reading “Vincent Lambert ordered to die by France’s highest appeal court.”

France’s highest appeal court will hear death by dehydration (Lambert) case.

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Vincent Lambert France’s top appeals court will hear the case concerning the withdrawal of food and fluids from Vincent Lambert, a man who was cognitively disabled in a motorcycle accident injury in 2008. In 2015, Lambert’s wife petitioned the court to have all treatment and care ceased including food andContinue reading “France’s highest appeal court will hear death by dehydration (Lambert) case.”

French society will be stepping off a moral precipice should it decide to starve Lambert to death.

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Vincent Lambert The Vincent Lambert case which concerns the withdrawal of food and fluids of a cognitively disabled man, also opens the question of the goals of the euthanasia lobby.Sign the petition: Protect Vincent Lambert’s Life (Link).  Kevin Yuill, author of the book Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist CaseContinue reading “French society will be stepping off a moral precipice should it decide to starve Lambert to death.”

Vincent Lambert is saved from death by dehydration for now

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Sign the petition: Protect Vincent Lambert’s Life (Link). Vincent Lambert The case of Vincent Lambert has become an emotional roller coaster as one court orders him to be dehydrated to death while another court orders food and water to continue.Two weeks ago the United Nations Committee on the RightsContinue reading “Vincent Lambert is saved from death by dehydration for now”

UN Committee prevents disabled man from being dehydrated to death in France.

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Vincent Lambert’s mother has been fighting for his life. The United Nations committee on disability rights is intervening in the Vincent Lambert case in France.  Lambert was cognitively disabled in a motorcycle accident injury in 2008. In 2015, his wife petitioned the court to have all treatment andContinue reading “UN Committee prevents disabled man from being dehydrated to death in France.”

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