…therine Crier Show,Court TV, CBS Evening News, MSNBC’s The Abrahms Report, Fox News The Neil Cavuto Show, Fox and Friends and National Public Radio, as well as local broadcast outlets in several states. She has presented invited testimony before Subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate four times (April 29, 1996, July 14, 1998, April 19, 2005 and May 25, 2006). From 2003 to 2008, she was a member of the adjunct faculty at the U…
…: The hand-written letter, which was obtained and released by the Mainichi newspaper, begins abruptly, with the writer saying he “is able to kill 470 disabled people” and a disclaimer that he realizes his threats defy common sense. Uematsu said he reached the conclusion that his plan to kill the disabled should be put “into action” and that “looking at the exhausted faces of the caretakers and the lifeless eyes of the employees of the caretaking f…
…eople in that state. Talk of suicide prevention? Practically nil. In fact, today, World Suicide Prevention Day, The Columbian published an editorial praising the law and what the facts (as presented by Compassion & Choices) indicate to them about its success. None of this surprises me. I also don’t expect any of the various suicide prevention groups to complain about the inappropriateness of exalting suicide during a week in which they’re trying t…
…mple, when they talk about the high cost of care for that person, or the struggles that come with moving them into a family member’s home, as is more often the case when structural supports for home and community-based services are absent in communities.[5] Legalizing assisted suicide opens up another avenue for elders to be abused and killed. Finally, older adults may feel pressured to request assisted suicide because, as the Oregon assisted suic…
…ts, well so goes your favorite disability non profit. Well, we’ll see the truth of that as history unfolds. Let’s bring in our guest today, Stephen Drake. Stephen is a research analyst for Not Dead Yet. He served children and adults with disabilities for ten years, obtained a masters degree in special education, and began a PHD program in special education at Syracuse University. He left that doctoral program to become a full-time activist and res…
