Not Dead Yet leaders and our disability rights partners are invited to provide keynote speeches, plenary remarks, guest lectures and panel presentations at conferences, universities and public policy forums regarding NDY issues. They also provide workshops and exhibit booths at conferences and public events.
Anita Cameron (Panelist) – How Race and Poverty Impact Opposition to Assisted Suicide – Webinar sponsored by Patients Rights Action Fund (09/28/23) (video)
Anita Cameron & Jules Good – No One Left Behind: Centering Multiply-Marginalized Disabled People in Assisted Suicide Opposition at the 2023 National Council on Independent Living Conference (7/24/23) (video)
Anita Cameron, Jules Good, John Kelly + STMA – Webinar– No One Left Behind: Protecting Vulnerable Communities from Assisted Suicide (07/14/23) (video)
Anita Cameron, John Kelly & Diane Coleman – Second Thoughts Connecticut Training: The Dangers of Assisted Suicide Laws (Webinar 11/18/21) (slides – pdf; slides – text)
Diane Coleman & Amy Hasbrouck – A Disability Rights and Social Justice Perspective Against Assisted Suicide at EPC’s Stopping Assisted Suicide In Your State Conference (01/25/2019 & 01/26/19) (Day 1: slides, text; Day 2: slides, text)
John Kelly’s Presentation – Implementation and Implications of Physician-Assisted Death: It’s All about Disability at the NASEM’S Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape and Potential Approaches – A Workshop (video, slides, slide outline text, 2/12/18)
Diane Coleman & Marilyn Golden – Advocate Training for Opposing Assisted Suicide Laws – Webinar for NY Assn. on Independent Living (slides, recording by NYAIL, 01/11/16)
Disability Matters Radio Show Interviews NDY’s Diane Coleman (Audio Link, Transcript Link, 9/8/15)
DREDF’s Marilyn Golden Presents to Older Women’s League on the Dangers of Assisted Suicide Laws (1/5/15)
Samantha Crane’s and Diane Coleman’s Remarks at the ASAN Awards Gala (Video link, 11/12/14)
Disability Rights Leadership Institute on Bioethics (4/25-26/14)
Withholding Treatment by Diane Coleman (Text, 4/25/14)
Assisted Suicide Laws by Marilyn Golden (Text, 4/25/14)
CT Developmental Disabilities Network Informational Forum on the Impact of Physician Assisted Suicide (10/18/13) (Video link, D Coleman remarks text, M Golden remarks text)
John Kelly: Organizing a Disability Rights Campaign Against Assisted Suicide Laws: Coalition, Communication, and Consistency (July 26, 2013) (photo and text)
A Brief History of Not Dead Yet, presented via Skype at the annual conference of the National Council on Independent Living (7/26/13) (Video link, Text of Diane Coleman’s remarks)
Disability Perspectives on Public Policy In Advance Care Planning, Presentation made by Diane Coleman, JD, CEO, Not Dead Yet to the 3rd International Society of Advance Care Planning and End of Life care Conference (Plenary Session), May 31, 2012 Text of presentation | PowerPoint Presentation (PDF format)
A review of evidence supporting certain disability rights concerns about “end of life” advocacy, Workshop presentation made by Diane Coleman, JD, CEO, Not Dead Yet at the 3rd International Society of Advance Care Planning and End of Life care Conference (May 31, 2012) Text of presentation | PowerPoint Presentation (PDF format)
Futility judgments – some doctors think patients go too far Article based on remarks of Diane Coleman at the “Disability and Ethics Across the Life Cycle” bioethics conference (5/21/2010).
A Handout: Why We Oppose Assisted Suicide Laws