This week ADAPT and Not Dead Yet launched a new messaging campaign which will be displayed on the New York City Times Square CBS Super Screen. The video message will be displayed once an hour, eighteen hours a day for three months. The Super Screen is 26 ft wide and 20 feet high. You can find … Continue reading ADAPT and Not Dead Yet Collaborate on New York City Times Square Super Screen Message
[Ed. Note: For a PDF formatted version of this Press Release, and links to eight testimonies submitted by NDY Board member William Peace as well as members of Second Thoughts Massachusetts and Second Thoughts Connecticut, go here.] Disability rights activists from across the region will be speaking Tuesday before the Massachusetts legislature’s Joint Committee on … Continue reading Press Release: Second Thoughts Massachusetts to Testify against Assisted Suicide Bill H 1998
On December 5, 2013, NDY’s John Kelly talked about the Tim Bowers case during public comments he provided by telephone to the National Council on Disability. Bowers is the Indiana hunter who was injured in a fall and died the next day when he told doctors to stop life support. John requested the Council’s help … Continue reading John Kelly Talks About the Tim Bowers Case
As regular readers of the NDY blog know, the disability community has concerns about Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST). (For NDY’s overall take on the subject, go here, and for NDY’s summary policy paper on POLST, go here.) For one thing, even though it says “for” life-sustaining treatment, it would be more accurate to say “on” … Continue reading John Kelly Quoted in NPR Thanksgiving Day Article on POLST
This is old news, but good news. On June 25, 2013, a Smithsonian press release announced that: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will launch “EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America” to explore themes and events related to the history of people with disabilities in the U.S. and offer a new perspective … Continue reading Not Dead Yet in the Smithsonian
