…valence Study 2009: http://www.ocfs.state.ny.us/main/reports/Under%20the%20Radar%2005%2012%2011%20final%20report.pdf [16] Autopsy Cutbacks Reveal “Gray Homicides”: http://canhr.org/newsroom/canhrnewsarchive/2011/NPR20110205.html [17] Murder-Suicide, Donna Cohen: http://cfs.cbcs.usf.edu/_docs/news/Cohen_OttawaSun.pdf…
…co-authored by Coleman and Dr. Carol Gill, Not Dead Yet (NDY) began. The struggle against assisted suicide was about to take a dramatic turn. On June 21, 1996, NDY activists held its 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 disability opposition. Three years later, when Jack Kevorkian was finally back in a Michigan courtr…
…anner logo of Costs Illustrated top center with Number 1979 and January/February 2022 above it. Listed in heavy white type on the left side of the image are the articles in this issue: How a Death-Wish Becomes a Law Australian Death Cultures: Tangy, Cheap, Utilitarian Beyond Ethics®: Fear-Based Ethics Make Assisted-Death Policy Sausage That Naïve And/Or Craven Elected Officials Can’t Get Enough Of Easy Weeknight Euthanasia Policy: Crips Are Dying…
…gender or sexual orientation. It would also define as hate crimes acts of brutality and cruelty in hospitals and nursing homes. The Bill is called the Shereian Meadows Amendment. Those journalists who are allowed to attend Kevorkian’s press Conferences might well ask him how he stands on this issue of freedom of choice. Readers might want to write or e-mail their Senator, or Representatives, and ask the same. One hopes we will also ask ourselves t…
…d Your Help to Protect the Rights of Children with Disabilities Around the World Dear DRI Supporters, Several weeks ago, I visited a baby house in Eastern Europe. It houses about 130 infants and small children, a third of whom are children with disabilities. Most babies are eventually returned to their birth parents, put into foster care or are adopted. But not the babies with disabilities. They have nowhere to go. Among children with disabilities…
