Part 1 of this blog introduced the Massachusetts Statehouse hearing held on December 17 about legalizing assisted suicide.  The Joint Committee on Public Health heard testimony on Bill H 1998, introduced as always by Democrat Representative Louis Kafka of Stoughton. Geriatric social worker and peer advocate Cassie Cramer drove home the point that it is social … Continue reading Second Thoughts” Abound at Assisted Suicide Hearing – Part 2 →

[Editor’s Note:  If you’d like to make a year-end contribution to support the work of great Not Dead Yet activists like John Kelly who wrote the post below, please donate here.] A year after helping defeat assisted suicide at the Massachusetts polls, it was a broader and stronger cross-disability coalition that came to testify at … Continue reading “Second Thoughts” Abound at Assisted Suicide Hearing – Part 1 →

(Editor’s Note: For a pdf version of the PRWeb release, go here.) Led by Not Dead Yet, eleven national and twenty-three state and local disability organizations, as well as individuals, have sent an open letter to Respecting Choices, a prominent advance care planning program operated by Gundersen Health Systems in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.  The letter criticizes … Continue reading Press Release: Disability Rights Organizations Led By Not Dead Yet Issue Open Letter Criticizing Respecting Choices Program for Bias Against Feeding Tubes and Breathing Devices →

[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 →