Byock was a hospice proponent and nominally opposed to assisted suicide. Ira Byock, now professor at Dartmouth Medical School and chair of its palliative medicine program, was another early PDIA grant recipient. A few years later, the school received a PDIA grant to develop RC EPEC, a parallel, end-of-life education program for Catholics, which was incorporated into the “Recovering Our Traditions” materials/conferences of the Supportive Care Coalition (a coalition of Catholic health care organizations). (emphasis added)Īmong the early PDIA grant recipients were members of Choice in Dying, a right-to-die group known for its promotion of living wills and the “right to refuse treatment.” In the early nineties, Choice in Dying launched a demonstration project that became known as Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care, to incorporate end-of-life care into medical education. Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine was one of the sites. it medicalises killing really at a time when our resources for care are limited, when physicians in their daily practice are under enormous pressures in your country and in my own, and perhaps it will take 10, 20 or 30 years for all of these issues to be resolved and for care to be provided to all, and perhaps this legalisation might be reconsidered, but at this point in time it is I do not think economically feasible or socially or politically appropriate to do so.
In her January 2005 testimony before the British House of Lords, she said, Foley opposes physician-assisted suicide, not because it is inherently wrong, but because she believes this is not the right time for its decriminalization. The bulk of his funding went to the more low-key Faculty Scholars Program, sponsored by his Project on Death in America (launched in 1994). George Soros sent limited funding to high-profile euthanasia groups. Led by bioethics centers, ethics committees and ethics networks, they helped frame changes in state-level policy/guidelines on withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining procedures and pain management. This was to help build statewide coalitions. RWJF chose Midwest Bioethics Center (now the Center for Practical Bioethics) to lead a national program called Community-State Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care.
#CATHOLIC TEACHING ON WITHHOLDING FOOD TO HASTEN DEATH PROFESSIONAL#
Initially, RWJF funded a multiyear project whose results helped frame a three pronged strategy for foundation funding as outlined in the Hastings Center Report: (1) Change professional education (i.e., for doctors, nurses, chaplains, social workers) (2) change institutions and (3) change public attitude. RWJF is known for making grants that promote single-payer universal health care, but perhaps is less known for its promotion of palliative care. RWJF funded infrastructure changes in the health care system, and Soros funded leadership development. Much of the funding to promote passive euthanasia came from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, beginning in the eighties, and from George Soros’ Open Society Institute, beginning in the nineties. In reality, they promote the hastening of death by blurring the line between passive euthanasia (withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment or death by overdose of opioids) and good, common-sense medical care. They usually claim to be “neutral” on decriminalization of physician-assisted suicide, and some will even say they oppose it. Yes, there are a number of palliative care leaders who are affiliated with Compassion & Choices (formerly known as the Hemlock Society) or who admit to being in favor of assisted suicide and euthanasia. But, there is an equal threat coming from a growing cohort of bioethicists, physicians (often at academic health centers), community organizers and hospital/hospice administrators. However, the problem in palliative care is not strictly due to “the euthanasia movement,” as it is commonly known.
Since the mid-1990s, several influential grant makers have collaborated to “change how we die in America.” Palliative care was their vehicle.
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