…ecific definitions used in a bill when it comes to applying it in the real world as law. Make no mistake. This bill, if passed, will guarantee an easy suicide to just about any person with diagnoses of quadriplegia, spinal muscular atrophy, HIV/AIDS, and many other conditions disabilities. Nothing to help people who could have many happy years with the right supports – just an easy and cheap out. –Stephen Drake We’ve heard that the judiciary commi…
…ly member). The pressure surrounding organ harvesting was a factor in the gruesome death of Ruben Navarro. Organ donation has also been an element of more than one “rush to judgment” case – or, as doctors prefer to call them “miracle recoveries” – more on this topic here and here. Whether or not the sentiments expressed by Laureys are true – and I suspect that there are large numbers of ethicists and physicians who would deny that it’s the case –…
…ments of “Ashley X.” She pretty much suggests that the “Ashley X’s” of the world should be culled from the “disability herd.” It’s the old – “you can’t speak for them because they’re too disabled to be disabled” gambit. Guess she should tell organizations like The Arc and TASH that they’re wasting their time. Never in this article does she actually quote actual activists in regard to “Ashley X” – she instead quotes a pediatrician from an excellent…
…fered from Lou Gehrig’s disease moved into her home, named her his estate trustee, deeded his home to a trust, and then died by physician-assisted suicide.” Two days after Thomas Middleton died, Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited the sale money into one of her own accounts. This story came to light, not through any assisted suicide program safeguards, but through suspicious real estate transactions. Americans place tremendous value…
…death, and without such witness, there’s no way to know whether the fatal drugs were administered by the person or their surrogate. (See https://www.kcba.org/newsevents/barbulletin/BView.aspx?Month=07&Year=2011&AID=article10.htm.) It all comes back to the conclusion I reached about the New Mexico case when I wrote about it in the Not Dead Yet blog: The New Mexico plaintiffs are all people who seem privileged enough to be justified in their confide…
