[Editor’s Note: NDY USA was honored many years ago when Jane Campbell asked if she could start NDY UK. Our sister organization has done incredible work. Here they share their reaction to the case of Noel Conway, a man with motor neuron disease, aka ALS.] NOT DEAD YET UK STATEMENT ON MR NOEL CONWAY’S LEGAL […]
[Editor’s note: The PRWeb version of this press release including a photo of NDY Board Chair Anne Sommers is available in pdf format here.] Not Dead Yet leaders as well as advocates from several national and local disability rights groups are having a busy week opposing assisted suicide laws being considered by legislatures in California […]
Clickhole is part of The Onion and parodies sites that post items that go viral. Today, Clickhole featured a “story” obviously inspired by the viral story of Brittany Maynard, who, along with a great deal of technical assistance from Compassion and Choices, shared her wish to kill herself using Oregon’s assisted suicide law. Part of […]
Rhonda Wiebe is on the NDY Board of Directors. Yesterday, The B.C. Catholic published an essay by Rhonda titled “Are we better off dead than disabled?” Here’s the beginning of her excellent piece – a piece that aims to inform sympathetic but otherwise uninformed allies about the most critical barriers and threats facing disabled people: […]
Today – August 24, 2010 – The US Human Rights Network (USHRN) published a compilation of 26 stakeholder reports in response to the report on domestic human rights submitted by the US State Department to the United Nations Human Rights Council. From the press release of the USHRN announcing the stakeholder reports: The report on […]
(Note – The image above is of the Final Exit Network (FEN) billboard in San Francisco that says “My Life My Death My Choice.” Below those words the old website address has been replaced by the web address for Phillip Morris, manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes and other tobacco products.) Some things are just too good […]
