…at we have to die to have dignity, that we have to die to be relieved of pain, or that we should die to stop burdening our families or society. The Draft Comment on this topic must be rejected. *** NDY’s full 16-page submission with references will be available on the Human Rights Committee website here, along with other submissions, including an excellent document by Toujours Vivant/Not Dead Yet Canada….
…ker, April 11, 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/who-gets-a-ventilator 6 Case 1:20-cv-04819 Document 1 Filed 10/07/20 Page 7 of 28 PageID #: 7 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/who-gets-a-ventilator (last visited Oct. 6, 2020). Ventilator Allocation Protocol 37. The Guidelines set forth a process for an acute medical facility to follow to determine who will receive a ventilator when there is a shortage of ventilators…
…Appellate Division in an assisted suicide case in which NDY filed a friend-of-the-court brief joined by ten other national and state disability organizations. The Court found no constitutional right to assisted suicide. Below is an excerpt from the 36-page decision: [P]laintiffs rely on two papers that purport to offer empirical evidence that Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, now in effect for over 20 years, has not invited the fears articulated b…
…itted an op-ed (guest essay) last week, spurred by the publication of a pro-assisted suicide op-ed written by the Executive Director of End of Life Choices New York (he called it “aid in dying). Ironically, on the opposite page was an essay about preventing teen suicides. Apparently that didn’t translate as irony with the editor(s) of the opinion page. Today, Saturday, October 31, my op-ed was published in the Opinion section of the Democrat and C…
…ginning in July. The National Council on Independent Living is the longest-running national cross-disability, grassroots organization run by and for people with disabilities. Founded in 1982, NCIL represents thousands of organizations and individuals including: individuals with disabilities, Centers for Independent Living (CILs), Statewide Independent Living Councils (SILCs), and other organizations that advocate for the human and civil rights of…
