…slippery slope” strategy at the site Political Strategy. Remember – in the world of political struggle, don’t let anyone corner you with the idea that the “slippery slope” is nothing more than a logical fallacy. It’s also an effective – and common – political strategy and it’s up us to redefine it. I’d also advise folks to keep a sharp eye on this new crop of “Tea Party” elected officials. They all tend to share the same combination of libertarian…
…mony co-authored by Carol Gill and myself, Not Dead Yet (NDY) began. The struggle against assisted suicide was about to take a dramatic turn. On June 21, 1996, NDY activists held our first direct action, picketing outside the Michigan cottage where Kevorkian was known to stay. The AP newswire carried a photo of the protest, the first media notice of our opposition. Three years later, when Jack Kevorkian was finally back in a Michigan courtroom, on…
…iège University, there is constant pressure in many parts of the developed world to withdraw sustenance from vegetative patients in order to allow them to die so that their body parts can be harvested. In a recent study, Laureys reports, “slightly less than half of surveyed US neurologists and nursing-home directors believed that patients in a vegetative state could be declared dead”. His remarks should be set against the background of widespread…
…happen apparently. Based on an article I read by Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_crucifixion_of_tomas_young_20130310/ Young has struggled mightily and has entered into hospice care to die even though he is not terminally ill. Since his injury, Young has taken a laundry list of medications (carbamazepine, coumadin, tizanidine, gabapentin, bupropion, omeprazole, and morphine were mentioned in Body of War). According to Hedges i…
…Jersey POLST bill. A POLST is a medical order, signed by a physician, instructing a health care provider about what types of life-sustaining treatment to provide or withhold. The instruction is supposed to be based on the wishes of the individual or their authorized surrogate health care decision maker. The National Task Force “strongly recommends” that the patient or surrogate signature also be required, but not all states have adopted that requ…
