I am a fan of Dick Sobsey‘s work and check his blog regularly for his latest news & analysis regarding the abuse of people with disabilities. His latest blog entry, on What Sorts of People, is concerned with an examination of the logic behind the Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) protocol. That’s the same protocol, […]
About a month ago, I wrote two blog entries dealing with the mythology vs. the reality of pet euthanasia. It’s an important topic, since euthanasia advocates often say something along the lines of “we can put a suffering dog to sleep, but we make humans suffer.” All the variations on this theme imply that all […]
Confession: the instructions below have been only slightly modified from an original set of instructions written by Dick Sobsey at the ICAD blog. I’ve already suggested that people who check this blog regularly should bookmark the ICAD blog. Similarly, substitute “ICAD” for “Not Dead Yet” in the instructions below and you can view ICAD easily […]
Over the years, I’ve gotten thoroughly sick and tired of the repeated use of the myths surrounding pet euthanasia as an argument in favor of providing the same “service” for humans. The latest of these is from a column by Dr. Gifford-Jones (I guess “Dr.” is his or her first name) published in the Edmonton […]
This will probably be of interest to readers – at least some of our readers. Dick Sobsey’s latest post on ICAD concerns recent research on Abuse & Disability: This post lists 15 studies on the relationship between abuse and disability that were published in 2008 and 2009. A brief description of each study is reported. […]
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 […]
Occasionally, this blog addresses issues that aren’t directly related to the NDY mainstays of life and death issues facing people with disabilities. This is one of those times. As Dick Sobsey wrote said in an email to me, this news out of South Korea fits in the “truly vile” category. That means it calls for […]
Yesterday, the Denver Post published a truly horrible article by Nancy Lofholm titled Autism’s terrible toll: Parents risk hitting a “breaking point.” In the context of this article “hitting a breaking point” means “murdering your child.” Your autistic child: Jacob Grabe, 13, could sense a storm coming several days out. He would get agitated and […]
