Sentences with phrase «patients lethal injections»

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«The use of the medicines in lethal injections runs counter to the manufacturers» mission to save and enhance patients» lives, and carries with it not only a public - health risk, but also reputational, fiscal and legal risks,» wrote the companies in a friend of the court filing.

If active euthanasia» e.g., lethal injection» and physician - assisted suicide are legally sanctioned, even more patients could couple organ donation with their planned deaths; we would not have to depend only upon persons attached to life support.

A common way to think about euthanasia is that a physician gives a lethal injection to the patient who wants to die.

With respect to their attitudes, of the 319 doctors who responded, 89 \ % consider it ethical to withhold ANH from PVS patients; 65 \ % consider it ethical to transplant vital organs from PVS patients; and 20 \ % consider it ethical to administer lethal injections to hasten the death of such patients.

With lethal - injection euthanasia now legal throughout Canada, predictable efforts are under way to permit patients to create binding written orders to have themselves killed if they lose mental capacity.

In a recent poll from Quebec — where lethal - injection euthanasia is legal — a chilling 72 percent of caregivers favor permitting Alzheimer's patients to be euthanized, even if the afflicted person never requested euthanasia.

Kevorkian was ultimately convicted of murdering an ALS patient by lethal injection.

The health bill would also implement a number of recommendations made by the inquiry into serial killer GP Harold Shipman, who killed more than 200 of his patients, many of them with lethal injections.

By contrast, medical ethicists remain divided about active euthanasia, in which a physician ends a patient's life intentionally and directly: for example, by means of a lethal injection.

Some vets may give the patient a mild sedative prior to administering the lethal injection.