NDY board member Bill Peace has been writing more on his blog Bad Cripple. Two of his recent posts last 2 touch directly on NDY concerns. In You Can’t do That, he describes the ways in which individuals and society focus hard on what he “can’t” do: The instant negativity attached to disability is raised […]
I meant to get this all up a little earlier, but life and exhaustion interfered a little with those plans. Below are links to coverage and commentary I recommend highly regarding the Stephen Hawking/assisted suicide kerfuffle: On Wednesday, September 18th, I participated in a 10-minute live exchange with Barbara Coombs Lee of Compassion and Choices. […]
A couple of days ago, someone sent me a friend request on Facebook. After I accepted, we exchanged a few pleasantries and info – and then he mentioned something about a blog. I’m always happy to find other thinkers and writers on the net that I can read and that I can point others to. […]
For about a week now, activists and advocates have been engaging in the fight to safeguard the health and safety of Amanda Baggs, one woman dealing with medical ignorance, apparent bigotry, and regular messages that her life isn’t one worth saving. Even now, a positive outcome isn’t assured. (I direct blog readers to just peruse […]
Until last week, I’d never heard of Thomas Young. But on March 13, Bill Peace published a disturbing post on his Bad Cripple Blog, titled “Thomas Young and Suicide: All the Wrong Questions Asked.“: I have not thought about Thomas Young in quite some time. He was featured in the 2007 documentary Body of War […]
There’s an interesting new response to Bill Peace’s essay in the Hastings Center Report in which Bill described a very disturbing late-night visit by a physician while Bill was hospitalized for care and complications relating to a stage IV skin breakdown. An excerpt has been posted as a comment on Bill’s response to invited reactions […]
This is a post I meant to do a couple months ago. Part of what we try to do with this blog is to steer folks to great blogs on disability and especially to specific writings on NDY-related topics. There’s a new blog in town (not as new as it was a couple months ago) […]
On March 21st, the Monterey County Herald published an op-ed by Neil Shapiro, which was, until the last paragraph, a fairly unremarkable and unoriginal promotion of legalized assisted suicide. The author praised Jack Kevorkian and the states of Oregon and Washington – the two states that have legalized physician-prescribed suicide for people believed to have less […]
I can’t explain the feelings that go through me when Robert Latimer surfaces in the news again. Robert Latimer’s murder of his daughter Tracy was pivotal in getting my attention directed at the euthanasia movement and in providing a solid foundation for my opposition to the movement. Even though it looks like I haven’t written […]
As promised, this is a list of additional blogs marking the death of Paul Longmore: I somehow left out the blog post by Daniel Goldberg at the Medical Humanities Blog. This rightfully belonged in yesterday’s list. This tribute by Wheelie Catholic to Paul Longmore was also up yesterday. WheelerMom writes about the heroes she hopes […]
