After having pissed off just about every active alcoholic – and people who love them – Roger Ebert came out today with a blog essay that I’m sure he thought would be a crowd pleaser. Today’s blog essay is titled “Now I lay me down to sleep.” The short version goes like this – Robert … Continue reading Apparently Roger Ebert Thinks Docudramas are Factual – A Response to “Now I lay me down to sleep”
Dutch media are framing the latest survey of medical professionals somewhat differently than I have in the headline here. Radio Netherlands titles their story “Dutch doctors wary of euthanasia for dementia,” while DutchNews.nl features the title “Doctors reluctant to help patients with dementia die.” Both news entitities take pains to minimize the percentage of doctors … Continue reading Netherlands: One-third of Doctors Willing to Euthanize Patients with Early Dementia
Back on April 1, 1998 I sent out an obviously bogus press release from an email address I reserved for just such purposes. It was an attempt at some (I thought) outrageous satire, taking pro-assisted suicide arguments based on “quality of life” to one of their many logical conclusions. What would happen, I wondered, when … Continue reading Yesterday’s Joke Becoming Today’s Reality – Death Row and Assisted Suicide
It seems that a fair number of people are surprised – even stunned – that me or any disabled person has anything at all bad to say about Kevorkian. The fact is, as a spoof.com writer put it, most supporters of Jack Kevorkian are “f–king uninformed idiot(s)”. I think that’s a fair label for people … Continue reading A little bit about the REAL Jack Kevorkian – In His Own Words
Anyone who is familiar with this blog or has actually done some research on Jack Kevorkian knows that a lot of the news coverage related to his death has been pretty crappy. The New York Times, Huffington Post – even William Saletan at Slate – credit Kevorkian as someone who “helped” the “terminally ill” (although … Continue reading Reality Check – Factual Information on Jack Kevorkian from a Surprising Source
