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We are Not Dead Yet, a disability rights organization fighting assisted suicide laws. We fight against the dangerous idea that some lives are not worth living.

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      We are Not Dead Yet, a disability rights organization fighting assisted suicide laws. We fight against the dangerous idea that some lives are not worth living.
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      Court Briefs
      
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  - - Disability Rights & Discrimination 11/24/23
      
      NDY Public Comment on Proposed Revision to National Institutes of Health Mission Statement
      
      Advocacy Training & Organizing 11/11/23
      
      NDY Public Comment on HHS/OCR Proposed Section 504 Healthcare Regulations
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      Writer’s Guild
      
      Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs)
      
      Veterans and Assisted Suicide
  - - ableism 10/14/26
      
      Three Strikes and You’re Dead: Canada’s Euthanasia By Advance Request Sets in Motion
      
      Not Dead Yet 09/26/26
      
      Not Dead Yet Condemns Order in Texas v. Kennedy

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Wendland v. Wendland, Amicus Brief of Not Dead Yet

By Not Dead Yet | October 30, 2000

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