…oral lesson in either compassion, the cost of health care or both. Her family doesn’t think her death has anything to do with either of those issues. This all got unexpectedly personal. Some of Criste Reimer’s messages to online groups have been posted elsewhere, all from 1998.One of the things I knew about Reimer from the news articles is that she had hydrocephalus. Until a few years ago, I had a website on hydrocephalus and got quite a bit of ma…
…euthanasia and/or assisted suicide for a number of years. It’s been a highly contentious topic within the British Medical Association. Quill’s commentary is obviously meant to have an impact on the public policy debate in the United Kingdom, at least within professional circles. There’s nothing dishonest or particularly unusual for advance copies of research to get shared with interested colleagues. But it’s disingenuous for Battin and Quill to c…
…be interesting to people who read this blog. Wesley Smith has blasted a truly crappy editorial from the Charleston Gazette that manages to praise George Exoo and Jack Kevorkian, while exhibiting total confusion over “terminal,” “disabled” and “ill.” His points overlap with ones I would have made if this had been a different week than it’s been. No criticism here – Wesley zeroes in on things we either miss or don’t view as central and vice versa. I…
…right lines regarding acceptable behavior. They also share a belief that basic standards of human rights and decency don’t necessarily apply to all people. –Stephen Drake…
…ors instead of doing their own investigations of what Terri’s wishes actually were. Consequently, most Americans did not know that 29 major national disability-rights organizations filed legal briefs and lobbied Congress to understand that this was not a right-to-die case, but about the right to continue living. A caveat here – when Hentoff talks about “mainstream media” I hope he is including Fox News Channel along with MSNBC and other “mainstrea…
