…he best resource I’ve found is the Medical Futility Blog by Thaddeus Mason Pope. Pope disagrees with NDY on a significant number of issues, but he’s an impressive researcher who has posted links to research and news coverage that I’ve found valuable. He also seems to make an honest attempt to be a fair reporter on issues he highlights on his blog, while making his own perspective clear (I do think he falls short of the mark at times, but I would g…
…received “some pretty intense criticism.” One critic is Professor Thaddeus Pope, who wrote about the Oklahoma law in a piece entitled “Defending Disability Discrimination.” Pope gave an example of an institutionalized person with mental illness who allegedly would not be able to handle his medications and other transplant care requirements to be eligible for a transplant. Coleman and other disability advocates challenge these sorts of claims, whic…
…hinks it’s good for disabled people to die by suicide. https://twitter.com/ThaddeusPope/status/1669450726831976449 The director of Compassion and Choices appeared on Dr. Phil with Thaddeus Mason Pope in January of 2023. -In January of 2023 the New York Hastings Center tweeted out an essay about how great it is that disabled Canadians are killing themselves and giving their internal organs away. https://twitter.com/hastingscenter/status/16180303885…
…takes place, 1 – 3 weeks. Promoted by some assisted suicide advocates like Thaddeus Pope for people who want to die but don’t qualify as terminal. One pro-VSED group defines “Living Terminally“ as “when a person lives with a debilitating disease and they depend on 24/7 care for ADLs (Activities of Daily Living), they’ve lost a quality of life that cannot be restored.” VSED as solution. 25 Discriminatory Double Standard Assisted suicide is discrimi…
…rticle about the hearing in the New Jersey Star-Ledger worth checking out. Thaddeus Mason Pope has posted his oral argument, and will write more about his impressions of the proceeding in the future. He opens the post with this: This morning in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a totally packed appellate courtroom was treated to a lively 90 minutes of oral argument on the law and ethics of medical futility. The hearing in Room 103 of the Middlesex County…
