'Futile Care' Duty To Die May Be Coming To A Hospital Near You
From The Daily Caller

May 11, 2012: When a Canadian man named Hassan Rasouli suffered complications after brain surgery, his doctors wanted to pull the plug. But his Muslim family said no. It was against Hassan's values, and moreover, they believed he showed signs of improvement. (continue ...)

Futile Care Theory: Bioethicists Should Stop Pretending They Are Doing Patients a Favor
From Secondhand Smoke

May 30, 2010: Allowing people to make their own informed decisions regarding the extent of end-of-life medical treatment is crucial to respecting all people as persons. (continue ...)

Filing Lawsuit Stops Hospital From Imposing Futile Care Treatment Cutoff Against Infant
By Wesley J. Smith

November 24, 2009: An attorney affiliated with the Alliance Defense Fund has used litigation to stop a Tennessee hospital from unilaterally withdrawing life support from an infant. (continue ...)

Reason Not to Dehydrate: Man Speaking After 23 Years in Locked-In State
From Secondhand Smoke

November 23, 2009: We hear constantly that people diagnosed as being persistently unconscious should be dehydrated to death because they are not "persons," or are actually "dead"-and so should be available for organ harvesting. We hear that even if the family resists, futile care theory should permit bioethics committees to impose unilateral withdrawal. (continue ...)

Obamacare: Government Funded Studies Pushing Toward Futile Care Rationing?
From Secondhand Smoke

October 16, 2009: I have been warning for nearly ten years that the Medical and Bioethics Intelligentsia were committed to imposing futile care theory on the most weak and vulnerable patients. (continue ...)

Obamacare Roadmap: Under "Healthcare Reform" Will We Still Get to Decide About End-of-Life Care?
From First Things

July 7, 2009: There is much advocacy around the issue of cost containment as we enter the great debate over health care "reform." (continue ...)

The Left Begins to "Get" The Threat of Futile Care Theory: Mickey Kaus Wants To Decide For Himself
From Secondhand Smoke

June 21, 2009: It's about time: Other than the disability rights movement and Nat Hentoff, it seems to me that the Left has been not only supine in the face of the oncoming "duty to die," but its enablers. (continue ...)

Toddler Emilio Gonzales Dies Naturally from Terminal Illness
From LifeSiteNews

May 22, 2007: A little Texas boy whose life became the center of a bitter debate over the right of physicians to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from terminal patients died from his illness Saturday night at the Children's Hospital of Austin, Texas, the Associated Press reported yesterday. (continue ...)

Are Medical Futility Policies Damaging Medicine?
By Karen Ward, RN

January 23, 2007: Medical Futility Policies are dictated by bioethicists and end-of-life advocates who push for policy changes within medicine and public policy changes via legislation.
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Andrea Clark Loses Fight For Life
From North Country Gazette

May 7, 2006: Andrea Clark has lost her valiant struggle for life. She passed away peacefully a little before 3 p.m. Sunday in St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, with her family and friends at her beside. (continue ...)

Death by Ethics Committee: Refusing to Treat Lives Deemed Unworthy of Living
By Wesley J. Smith

April 27, 2006: The bioethics committee at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston, Texas has decreed that Andrea Clarke should die. Indeed, after a closed-door hearing, it ordered all further medical efforts to sustain her life while at St. Luke's to cease. (continue ...)

Doc Knows Best: It'll Be Too Late For You, If He's Wrong
By Wesley J. Smith

January 6, 2003: Who should have the right to decide whether you receive life-sustaining medical treatment during a critical or terminal illness? Most would say with great confidence, "Me. Or, if I am unable to decide, then my family." (continue ...)