(photo at right: eight disability activists in front of hotel, holding signs and surrounding bright red banner that reads: NOT DEAD YET – We Want to Live!) Last Saturday, June 6, the Final Exit Network held its annual meeting at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Schiller Park, IL, near Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Nine disability … Continue reading Chicago NDY Visits Final Exit Network’s Annual Meeting
Last week, Diane Coleman and I attended and participated in the Second International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, put on by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC). We were optimistic about attending based on our experiences with Alex Schadenberg, E.D. of EPC. We attended an event of EPC last year in Winnipeg with members of … Continue reading Is a Coalition Possible? – The Jury is Still Out
Margaret Dore has been doing strong work exposing the pitfalls and logical fallacies that are embedded in the framework of Washington State’s “Death With Dignity” law. She does so from the perspective of a lawyer who specializes in Elder Law. Recently, the King County Bar Association published her analysis of the newly-passed assisted suicide legislation … Continue reading Seattle Elder Law Attorney Discusses What Lawyers Should Be Telling Clients About “Death With Dignity” Act
On Monday, April 20, the Chicago “End of Life” Care Coalition hosted an event titled “Options in ‘End of Life’ Care: The Legal, the Personal and the Controversial.” Eyebrows – and tempers – rose in the disability community when the conference flyer came out. For the past couple of months, the biggest “end of life” … Continue reading Chicago NDY Confronts Chicago “End of Life” Care Coalition and Barbara Coombs Lee
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 … Continue reading Drake & Sobsey: “Let’s put this pet theory to sleep” on MercatorNet
