Dear NCD members: I have been a member of the board of Not Dead Yet in the United States since 2000. I am also the director of Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet, a project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities Ending of Life Ethics Committee to inform, unify and give voice to the disability rights […]
This is a belated but timeless post of Amy Hasbrouck’s powerful open letter to the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). Amy is Director of NDY’s sister organization, Toujours Vivant/Not Dead Yet Canada. She issued the letter in August 2014 in response to the CMA’s report entitled “End of Life Care: A National Dialogue.” Her message calling […]
Not Dead Yet and other disability rights activists from around the U.S. and Canada held a three-day protest vigil at an international assisted suicide and euthanasia conference held in Chicago last week, hosted by the U.S. group Final Exit Network. Some of the first day’s events, including an opening rally, were covered here. We plan […]
Months of work came to fruition on April 25 – 26, 2014 at the Crystal City Marriott in Arlington, VA. Conference planning experts told us to expect a 10% no show rate, but out of our final count of 68 who signed up to attend (we had initially expected about 50), only 3 missed it. […]
Press Release from Toujours-Vivant-Not Dead Yet: Bill 52 And Suicide Prevention Week: Deadly Irony VALLEYFIELD, QC, Feb. 1, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – While Quebec marks suicide prevention week from February 2-8, disability rights activists believe Bill 52, which would allow euthanasia of ill and disabled people, undermines the public policy of suicide prevention. “There is […]
From the press release: MONTREAL, May 16, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ – Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet will join Québécers who oppose euthanasia on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at noon on the Plains of Abraham. TVNDY is a progressive, non-religious project to unite and give voice to the disability opposition to euthanasia, assisted suicide, and other discriminatory […]
Vermont Assisted Suicide Bill Allows a Third Party to Speak for an Elder or Disabled Person S. 77, the assisted suicide bill passed by the Vermont State Senate on Wednesday, endangers disabled people, elderly people and ill people. The Vermont House should reconsider its earlier support of the legislation and work to protect the […]
From the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Blog: (Note – the op-ed mentioned below is included at the end of the media advisory, instead of just linked as stated in test) CCD Media Advisory: Suicide Celebration Instead of Suicide Prevention 23 April 2013, WINNIPEG, MB According to media reports, Susan Griffiths’ assisted suicide will likely […]
From the Vancouver Sun: Castlegar mother Ann Fomenoff misses her dead daughter Gloria Taylor every day. But the 85-year-old does not question the battle waged by Taylor to change the laws that criminalized doctor-assisted dying. To honour her daughter, who has ALS and died in October aged 64, Fomenoff will be in B.C. Court of […]
AMOUR AND FEAR: ASSISTED SUICIDE AT THE OSCARS By Amy E. Hasbrouck Once again, a film about “euthanasia” has won an Oscar. Back in the ‘70s the tear-jerker movies were about people dying of cancer. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, it was people dying of AIDS. For the 21st century, the new chic is euthanasia/assisted […]
