Welcome to the home page of The Compassionate Healthcare Network (CHN)

   CHN's work is international.  We  provide online research data and original articles pertaining to euthanasia, assisted suicide, disability and  palliative care.

We oppose all programs, policies and perspectives which may threaten or weaken the physical existence of any person who is sick, disabled, infirm, dying or otherwise medically at risk.

    ' MAKING A DIFFERENCE '  ~ CHN is celebrating its 19^th year in service 1992 - 2011
 

  FOUNDER - EDITOR : Cheryl Eckstein    ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Bryan Eckstein 

LINKS TO CHN DOCUMENTS  ARE CATEGORIZED BY SUBJECT

 

  NETHERLANDS & BELGIUM PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE (PAS):  Resource information on  euthanasia PAS, infanticide.  Nazi euthanasia  Euthanasia, assisted suicide and infanticide is practiced legally in both these countries.
 

   EUTHANASIA, PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE (PAS), & RELATED ISSUES IN OTHER COUNTRIES included are statistics on suicide.   In the USA,  Assisted suicide is practiced legally in Oregon 
 

 BRAIN DEATH - COMA, PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE & RELATED
 

  ARTICLES BY AUTHORS  Topics from authors include issues surrounding the modern euthanasia movement; brain death, PVS, coma, assisted suicide, suicide, mercy killing, etc.. 
 

 PALLIATIVE CARE;   HOSPICE;   END OF LIFE CARE,   ISSUES ON PAIN MANAGEMENT     Articles regarding removing nutrition and hydration (tube feeding)  -   hastening death;   terminal sedation,   so-called futile care;   resources include links to other medical journals,   books and reviews etc.    Definitions - what is palliative care;   what is hospice. 

Pain  "For millions, pain is severe enough to be disabling; up to 6 million patients are on long-term opioid therapy. It's not just a question of suffering: Serious pain can actually worsen recovery from various ailments."
 

 CANADIAN CASES  TRACY LATIMER   ROBERT LATIMER   SUE RODRIGUEZ includes  LAW LINKS
 

    ISSUES ON DISABILITIES    "Little Dylan Walborn, Broomfield, Colorado, was a victim of America’s “mercy-killing,” euthanasia movement.  Judged better off dead by Denver’s Children’s Hospital, Porter Hospice, a Denver social worker, Dylan's public school teachers, and the Denver Post, four-year-old Dylan was starved to death over a period of twenty-four days." This child like Terri Schiavo, was legally murdered - yet few people have ever heard of him.  These and other stories inside CHN - ISSUES ON DISABILITIES.      
 

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Turning the Tide produced by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Salt and Light television media foundation is now available. Click here for more information.

  CHN's web page was created in 1993, however a visitors counter was not added until February 24th, 2001; since that date you are visitor 

This page was last updated September 09, 2011