…to relieve feelings of burdening family, are not explored. In this flawed world view, suicide prevention is irrelevant. Broad Agenda, Incremental Strategy, Not Just for the Terminally Ill The political agenda of many assisted suicide organizations includes expansion of eligibility to people with incurable but not necessarily terminal conditions who feel that their suffering is unbearable, without examining the cause of the suffering or whether it…
…l in Montana in 2009. The issue is hotly contested. On one end of the spectrum, the Final Exit Network argues the Oregon and Washington laws are inadequate because only those who are terminally ill are allowed to receive lethal drugs. The 3,000-member group, an outgrowth of the Hemlock Society, believes people who are not terminal should also be permitted to end their lives. “There are many illnesses, awful illnesses, with no time limit,” says Jer…
…t prestigious awards that can be won by a non-fiction film anywhere in the world. Director Peter D. Richardson, an Oregon native whose debut feature, “Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon,” played to acclaim at Sundance in 2006, stood atop a field of 16 competing documentaries that were selected from a field of 841 submissions. I’m not exactly surprised that this film received top honors. The memory of the 2005 “Kill the Cripple” night at the…
…hanasia and medical killing do not take place in a vacuum, but in the real world where discrimination against disabled people leads to isolation, poor health care, insufficient or non-existent personal assistance services, chronic unemployment, poverty, and exclusion from social, civic and political life. NDY has demonstrated that, where these practices are concerned, the axiom “better dead than disabled” is the basis of decision-making for doctor…
…hts of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and public policy and legislative development. The vision of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund is a just world where all people, with and without disabilities, live full and independent lives free of discrimination. Check out DREDF’s Resource Page on Assisted Suicide here….
