Choosing Death (new 6 min video)
NBC News Left Field has produced an excellent six-minute video with End of Life Choices New York about the need for medical aid in dying. C...
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Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD)� Lessons Learned in Oregon and Colorado
We have 175 participants gathered here in Minneapolis, today, to discuss medical aid in dying. This is the opening presenter David Grube. ...
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Brain Death Conflict - Taquisha McKitty,
Taquisha McKitty is being physiologically sustained at Brampton Civic Hospital (Ontario), even though her attending physician (Omar Hayani) ...
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Medical Ethics and Treatment Decisions Following Charlie Gard - Journal of Medical Ethics Special Issue Call for Papers
From the Journal of Medical Ethics : The court case between Charlie Gard�s parents and his Great Ormond Street Hospital medical team attract...
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Medical Futility Case in Alberta - Darlene Crayne
Several reports have indicated that Canadian ICU clinicians have generally "caved in" to family demands for potentially inappropr...
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Call for Abstracts - International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation (ICCEC 2018)
Oxford Abstract submission is now open for the 14th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation (ICCEC 2018), a leading intern...
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Faith and Morality and Medical Aid in Dying
Come to Hamline University on Thursday, October 5 for "Faith and Morality and Medical Aid in Dying." Rev. Dr. Ignacio Castuera (Tr...
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Minnesota Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) - Lessons Learned in Oregon and Colorado
Join me this Friday, September 29 for "Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) - Lessons Learned in Oregon and Colorado." The purpose of this ...
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Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Texas "Medical Futility" Law
On Friday, a Harris County, Texas trial court rejected a constitutional challenge to the Texas Advance Directives Act. Judge Bill Burke sai...
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7 Pathways to Legalize Medical Aid in Dying
Today, I am participating in a law review symposium at the University of New Mexico. My presentation is "Legal History of Medical Aid ...
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Lawsuit Challenging Texas' Futile Care Law Goes before Judge
Later today, there is a major hearing in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the dispute resolution provisions in the Texas Advan...
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Dying in the Americas 2018
Another major end-of-life policy conference is scheduled from March 21 to 25, 2018 outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: D...
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UK Drops Judicial Permission Requirement to Stop CANH for PVS patients
Justice Peter Jackson In contrast to most Western jurisdictions, families and clinicians in the UK needed court permission withdraw nutritio...
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International Conference on End of Life Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice (ICEL3) - Belgium 2019
I have been to the first and second International Conference on End of Life Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice (ICEL1 and ICEL2). Both incl...
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New Law Limits Doctors' Ability to Invoke DNR without Patient Consent
Todd Ackerman has a solid story in the Houston Chronicle on the background and impact of SB11 in Texas. "Beginning next April, the rig...
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Make Clinicians Feel Legally Safe to Do the Right Thing
I am just back from a marvelous conference on end-of-life law and policy in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Interestingly, the citadel in Halifax (s...
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New Symposium on VSED
The Seattle Journal for Social Justice has published several articles flowing from our October 2016 conference on VSED (Voluntarily Stoppi...
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Mitchell Hamline Health Law Students Facilitate Advance Care Planning
While I am in Nova Scotia, Mitchell Hamline health law students were in Hastings, Minnesota at the Dakota County Judicial Center with the Mo...
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Right to Die - Top Legal Developments 2017
The first of two 2018 updates to the legal reference book Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking will cover the following new ...
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Call for Submissions - AALS Works-in-Progress for New Health Law School Teachers
The AALS Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care will be holding a workshop session for junior scholars at the upcoming AALS annual meeti...
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AALS Health Law Award
The AALS Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care gives an award to recognize outstanding contributions of law teachers in the service of ...
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Wisconsin Legislation on Rights for the Terminally Ill
Wisconsin, not exactly the state you would expect to consider legislation extending new rights to the terminally ill. And you would be mos...
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State Constitutional Right to Aid in Dying
In his concurring opinion in Myers v. Schneiderman , Justice Garcia observed that "not a single plaintiff has asserted a successful c...
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Israel Stinson Brain Death Lawsuit Continues
Judge Mueller This week, the Alameda County Superior Court denied the defendants' motion for summary adjudication in the Jahi McMath cas...
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American Nurses Association Supports VSED
Too few medical associations have issued either practice guidelines or policies on VSED. Fortunately, the American Nurses Association issued...
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Dying Woman Gets Final Wish to Bid Farewell to Her Horse
No legal or policy issues with this story . But it is too heartwarming not to share.
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New York Rejects State Constitutional Right to Aid in Dying
Sara Myers This morning, the New York Court of Appeals released an 81-page opinion in Myers v. Schneiderman . The court summarized its hol...
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Jahi McMath Case Now Headed to a Jury Trial on Whether She Is Now Alive
Alan Shewmon allowed to testify Earlier this year, the medical defendants in Jahi McMath's medical malpractice lawsuit filed a motion t...
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Protecting Vulnerable Elderly in Our Community (Minnesota Free CLE)
Check out this free CLE on September 17 by my colleague Iris Freeman: "Family Secrets and Stranger Scams."
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Premortem Cryopreservation Does Not Cause Death
In 1990, Thomas K. Donaldson sued the California Attorney General for the right to an elective premortem cryopreservation. Most cryopreserv...
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Second International Conference on End of Life Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice
There is less than two weeks until the Second International Conference on End of Life Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice . This is a truly...
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4 Minutes and 28 Days to a Changed Body!
These days, the board is the most prominent full-body work out, which has helped a large number of individuals worldwide to change their bod...
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