As of today, Bill Peace’s essay “Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood” is online – and accompanied by three commentaries available at the Hasting Center Bioethics Blog. Here’s what we wrote before about the experience at the center of Bill’s essay: Back in 2010, our friend, colleague and ally Bill Peace, experienced a long, expensive […]
As we reported last week, several NDYers and other disability activists went to the taping of the “Dr. Oz” show on assisted suicide. We were able to share the impressions of a disabled man who is part of the Final Exit Network (FEN) who came away feeling that the staff of the show was dishonest […]
On March 21st, the Monterey County Herald published an op-ed by Neil Shapiro, which was, until the last paragraph, a fairly unremarkable and unoriginal promotion of legalized assisted suicide. The author praised Jack Kevorkian and the states of Oregon and Washington – the two states that have legalized physician-prescribed suicide for people believed to have less […]
Hopefully, a lot of regular readers have become familiar with Bill Peace’s Bad Cripple Blog. I think I’ve excerpted, reacted to or just plain pointed to his blog more than anyone else’s – check out this link for the NDY posts in which he’s been featured in some way. Bill’s blog went silent for almost […]
I’m extremely ambivalent about the Hastings Center. The interactions I have had with this bioethics entity have been both cordial – and very limited. Periodically, the Center seems to take an interest in hearing something from disability advocates and activists, but after they’ve engaged in a small token effort, move on and appear to be […]
Earlier this month, Washington State released its report on the first 10 months of its brand-new assisted suicide law. You can read a pretty typical press account at this NY Times link. However, neither the Times nor most of the media gets at some of the troubling information that emerges from this report – limited […]
There’s a fresh piece from Ann Neumann on Alternet, bemoaning the way the euthanasia debate in the UK – and here in the US – has become another aspect of the “Culture Wars.” As mentioned in an earlier post, there has been a flood of pro-euthanasia coverage in the UK. It’s even got Ann Neumann, […]
I’ve been struggling through the decision by the Montana Supreme Court in Baxter v. Montana. I’m still trying to get my head around the implications of the specific wording used in the decision – a decision which states there is nothing that currently prohibits physician-assisted suicide in Montana law right now (in the court’s interpretation). […]
Update on the article that appeared in yesterday’s edition of the Princetonian, which contained inaccurate and defamatory remarks about NDY. The online article has been revised. The article also carries an Editor’s note at the end of the article, which we’re told was published in today’s print edition of the Princetonian: Due to an editing […]
I’ll be writing more on my own next week on this, but the Director of of Public Prosecutions in the UK issued his long-awaited “interim guidelines” on prosecutions in cases of friends/family assisting family members traveling to Switzerland to commit suicide. William Peace at Bad Cripple writes that the guidelines are a slam dunk for […]
