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Diane Coleman: What the COVID Crisis Tells Us About the Dangers of Assisted Suicide

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The COVID pandemic revealed that people with disabilities have been denied treatment for the virus due to their disabilities and pervasive biases about their “quality of life”. This denial of care raises the very real issue that persons with disabilities are and will face similar discrimination under assisted suicide laws. Healthcare providers are the gatekeepers … Continue reading Diane Coleman: What the COVID Crisis Tells Us About the Dangers of Assisted Suicide →

Carol Cleigh Sutton: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident…

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…but we don’t. In a phone conversation, a friend of a friend invited me to an event in the Spring. I said that it would depend upon a vaccine for Covid-19. Since our mutual friend and I are both high risk, neither will be traveling before then. She then volunteered that she thinks people in … Continue reading Carol Cleigh Sutton: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident… →

John Kelly – Assisted Suicide: It’s All about Disability

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Proponents of assisted suicide laws have insisted for years that assisted suicide has nothing to do with disability, when a glance at the reported “end of life concerns” in Oregon showed those concerns to be all about people’s psychological distress over the disabling aspects of their serious disease. As one example, lead Massachusetts proponent of … Continue reading John Kelly – Assisted Suicide: It’s All about Disability →

Carol Cleigh Sutton: How Deeply Ableist is Mainstream Media?

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A man named Michael Hickson died on June 11, 2020. He was denied food an fluids for 6 days. He was a Black man. His death occurred in a climate of national discussion about the killing of Black men. His wife, Melissa, has ample evidence that his death was deliberate and was the result of … Continue reading Carol Cleigh Sutton: How Deeply Ableist is Mainstream Media? →

NDY Applauds ADAPT of Texas Demand For Investigation of Michael Hickson’s Death

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NDY Press Release: ADAPT of Texas has issued an Independence Day announcement that disability advocates are holding a vigil at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center to support the family of Michael Hickson, a 46-year old Black man with disabilities who died after being denied COVID-19 treatment. Not Dead Yet applauds ADAPT of Texas’ demand … Continue reading NDY Applauds ADAPT of Texas Demand For Investigation of Michael Hickson’s Death →