…ent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom. For more information on our organizations, visit www.adapt.org and www.notdeadyet.org. If you have received this press release in electronic format the ad itself has been attached. ***30***…
…dividuals, possibly as many as 100%, are disabled. Three of these reasons (loss of autonomy, loss of dignity, feelings of being a burden) could be addressed by consumer-directed in-home long-term care services, but no disclosures about or provision of such services is required. Some of the reported reasons are clearly psycho-social and could be addressed by disability-competent professional and peer counselors, but this is not required either. Mor…
…g this bill talks about. Doctors report people choosing suicide because of loss of dignity, loss of autonomy, feeling like a burden, and loss of control of bodily functions. These reasons suggest a meaning of dignity that is fragile and easily lost through disability and dependence on others. The people acting on these views, proponents admit, tend to be wealthier, better educated, and people with a strong preference for control. This is presented…
…ng loved ones face reality. But Fins argues that this is a cop-out. “It’s glossing over all the unknowns for the sake of a quicker, cleaner solution,” he says. “It’s wrong to be so uniformly fatalistic so early on, especially with all the data emerging about the prospects for later-stage recovery. A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead, NYTimes Magazine, Jeneen Interlandi, Dec 1, 2011 (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-minimally-…
…irst Death for Washington Assisted-Suicide Law, New York Times, 5/23/2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/us/23suicide.html?_r=0 (accessed March 10, 2015). Sawyer Arraigned on State Fraud Charges, KTVZ.com, Sept. 7, 2011. hwww.ktvz.com/news/Sawyer-Arraigned-on-State-Fraud-Charges/619440 (accessed March 23, 2015). Dr. Greg Hamilton, Testimony to the Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, December 10, 2004, http://www.pccef….
