…essay and its themes of “quality of life” and “expense” using Clendinen’s essay as a jumping-off point. On July 14th, the New York Times featured an article by columnist David Brooks, titled Death and Budgets: I hope you had the chance to read and reread Dudley Clendinen’s splendid essay, “The Good Short Life,” in The Times’s Sunday Review section. Clendinen is dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or A.L.S. If he uses all the available medical…
…view on Not Dead Yet (Voice of America, 09/04/18) Belgium Euthanizing 9, 11-Y-O Children: Report (Christian Post, 08/13/18) Advocates for Disabled Warn Against AMA’s Softening Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide (Daily Signal, 06/14/18) We’re told we are a burden. No wonder disabled people fear assisted suicide (Guardian, 06/01/18) Terminally ill New Yorkers cannot get help from doctors when they want to die (Altamont Enterprise, 05/24/18) Un…
…ker, April 11, 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/who-gets-a-ventilator 6 Case 1:20-cv-04819 Document 1 Filed 10/07/20 Page 7 of 28 PageID #: 7 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/who-gets-a-ventilator (last visited Oct. 6, 2020). Ventilator Allocation Protocol 37. The Guidelines set forth a process for an acute medical facility to follow to determine who will receive a ventilator when there is a shortage of ventilators…
…s about doctor-assisted suicide crystallized the night Mike — my wheelchair-using, ventilator-breathing boyfriend — choked on pineapple juice, passed out, and died. He was dead for several minutes, on a steel table in the ER. The doctor shocked the pulse back into his heart and dropped him into an induced coma, but it still wasn’t clear whether he would make it. As I stood by his bedside, shaking, one of the nurses touched me on the shoulder. “May…
…discontinue antibiotics and let himself be given palliative care to be pain-free until the infection took him. Below are the links to Bill’s essay, and the three commentaries: Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood by William J. Peace Commentaries/Reactions to Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood: “Disability Discrimination” by Diane Coleman and Stephen Drake – We discuss evidence that Bill Peace’s account of feeling devalued and threatened in a hea…
