Part of my daily routine involves checking news and blogs for material relevant to NDY issues. Most often I excerpt and link to relevant pieces – critiquing ones that kind of demand a response of some kind. Then there are those happy times I find bloggers who have written some things that are so on-target … Continue reading Two Highly Recommended Blog Reads Today
Yesterday, I wrote about Good Morning America‘s fawning rollout of John West and his memoir, “The Last Goodnights.” In the book, he claims to have facilitated/aided the suicides of both his father and mother about ten years ago. It turns out that West’s lone publicity tour is looking more like a bandwagon. Today, I found … Continue reading Barbara Coombs-Lee and “Compassion” Join “Last Goodnights” Book Promotion
ABC’s Good Morning America appears to have pulled out all the stops in helping attorney John West promote his recently-published book, “The Last Goodnights.” The book is a memoir detailing how he “assisted” the suicides of both his parents about ten years ago. Before I get into the specifics of the coverage, I’d like to … Continue reading ABC’s GMA Helps Author Promote Memoir and Assisted Suicide
Back in December, Roxanne Furlong called me. Roxanne is the Associate Editor of New Mobility, a magazine focused on the interests of wheelchair users. It covers the gamut of disability concerns – the arts, lifestyle, leisure, politics and advocacy. Roxanne called me for comments on the airing of a documentary that featured the suicide and … Continue reading New Mobility: NDY quoted in story on U.K. Airing of Ewert Suicide
Just today, William Peace at Bad Cripple wrote his own thoughts in regard to Victoria Brignell’s column on assisted suicide, which I responded to yesterday. Peace takes on a different part of the essay by Brignell and provides a long analysis of some issues that triggered his own thought processes. Here’s the introduction: What I … Continue reading More on Brignell Column From William Peace at Bad Cripple
