(Editor’s Note – you can read this article at the Not Dead Yet UK site – that version includes a couple of links absent here. Click title to go to original article. Please read to the end – I’ve added a couple of links of my own on similar issues we’ve dealt with in … Continue reading Not Dead Yet UK: “Real Disability Activists and Masquerades” by Dr. Kevin Fitzpatrick OBE
Tanni Grey-Thompson is well-known in the UK and to those who follow the paralympics. Some of her biography is excerpted from the wikipedia entry on her below, for the benefit of readers outside of the UK who don’t follow athletic competitions: Dame Carys Davina “Tanni” Grey-Thompson,[2] Baroness Grey-Thompson, DBE (born 26 July 1969) is a … Continue reading Op-Ed: “Assisted suicide: a chilling prospect for disabled people” by Tanni Grey-Thompson
Crippen Cartoonist (aka Dave Lupton) is a brilliant cartoonist and a disability rights activist. In my current mode of “catch-up,” I want to point people to his latest blog entry, which as usual, features cartoon, with click-able full text description. The latest entry is titled “Making assisted suicide more accessible?!” Here are the first few … Continue reading Crippen’s Blog – “Making assisted suicide more accessible?”
The following are excerpts from an excellent piece by columnist Dominic Lawson. He arranged to visit SCOPE, the UK disability charity that published the results of a survey earlier this year, finding that 70% of disabled respondents expressed concerns about their own safety if assisted suicide was legalized in the UK. Lawson was allowed to … Continue reading UK – Dominic Lawson: Why the disabled fear assisted suicide
Our disabled allies in the UK are currently experiencing – and fighting against – a potentially deadly assault on their lives and freedom. The UK Government proposes to severely cut the many parts of the social safety net that disabled people of all ages depend on to live – and many just barely managing on … Continue reading Disability Activists in the UK Push Back Against BBC and Terry Pratchett Promotion of Assisted Suicide
