Category Archives: Our News & Commentary Blog

To view the video on YouTube , go here: https://youtu.be/B0z1XnuoSV0 CW: Suicide, ableism In this vlog, we’ll explore the relationship between suicide prevention, disability, and assisted suicide, as well as the ways disabled people are endangered by policies that devalue our lives. RESOURCES ON DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION WORK: Project LETS: https://projectlets.org/advocacy MindFreedom International: https://mindfreedom.org/about-mfi/ SOURCES: 1&2. APA … Continue reading NDY Vlog Episode 2: Suicide Prevention and the Disability Double Standard →

Introducing the Not Dead Yet Video Blog!

September 23, 2022Our News & Commentary BlogDiane Coleman

Check out our first in a series of vlogs! Join Jules Good, our Assistant Director and Policy Analyst, (and Chompers, their cockatiel, who is always eager to join in on vlog recording) to learn about involuntary withdrawal of life-sustaining medical treatment. This video also features an interview with Anita Cameron, our Director of Minority Outreach, … Continue reading Introducing the Not Dead Yet Video Blog! →

Lisa Blumberg: Getting Beyond Advance Medical Directives

September 16, 2022advance directives, Conversation Project, DNR, Do-Not-Resuscitate, Dr. Ferdinando Mirarchi, end-of-life care, Health care decision-making, life-sustaining treatment, Lisa Blumberg, Our News & Commentary Blog, supported decision making, treatment withdrawalAdvance Care Planning, advance directives, End-of-life, Lisa Blumberg, treatment withdrawalDiane Coleman

For years, advance medical directives, popularly known as living wills, have been promoted as giving people control over what happens to them at “end of life”, i.e., when they are in dire medical straits. (1) It is hard to disagree with the concept. Certainly, people have the right to refuse treatment they don’t find helpful … Continue reading Lisa Blumberg: Getting Beyond Advance Medical Directives →

Response: “Neurologic Diseases and MAiD” in The American Journal of Bioethics

August 30, 2022"death with dignity", "end of life", ableism, advocacy, aid in dying, Americans with Disabilities Act, assisted suicide, bioethics, euthanasia, Our News & Commentary BlogADA, aid in dying, assisted suicide, bioethics, euthanasiaDiane Coleman

Jules Good writes in response to “Neurologic Diseases and MAiD: Aid-In-Dying Laws Create an Underclass of Patients Based on Disability” by Lonny Shavelson, Thaddeus M. Pope, Margaret Pabst Battin, Alicia Oulette & Benzi Kluger, published in The American Journal of Bioethics 16 August 2022: Legal assisted suicide puts disabled people in danger of being killed … Continue reading Response: “Neurologic Diseases and MAiD” in The American Journal of Bioethics →

Jules Good: An Important Article On Euthanasia of Disabled People in Canada

August 23, 2022"death with dignity", aid in dying, assisted suicide, Canada, cost containment, euthanasia, Jules Good, Our News & Commentary Blogassisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia, Jules GoodDiane Coleman

A little over a year after the passage of Bill C-7, which expanded access to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) in Canada to people whose natural deaths are not “reasonably foreseeable,” we are seeing the dangerous effects of this legislation for disabled people. As more data becomes available about who is using MAiD and how … Continue reading Jules Good: An Important Article On Euthanasia of Disabled People in Canada →