Second Thoughts Massachusetts Letter to New Mexico Attorney General Gary King Urging Appeal of Assisted Suicide Case

…She pushed for legal right to die, and – thankfully – was rebuffed.”http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2011/10/04/she_pushed_for_legal_right_to_die_and___thankfully___was_rebuffed/ Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Cape Cod Times op Ed, October 27, 2012. “Question 2 insults Kennedy’s memory.” http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121027/OPINION/210270347 Pew Forum, “Views on End-of-Life Medical Treatmen…

Not Dead Yet’s Public Comment to U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services on Affordable Care Act’s Nondiscrimination Regulations

…, chief of medical ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College and author of a coming book, “Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics and the Struggle for Consciousness.”. . . . Early on, when families have the option to pull the plug, it’s almost impossible to tell what the long-term prognosis will be,” says Dr. Soojin Park, a neurointensivist at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital,. . . . “And then later, when we have the certainty — that this…

Barrier Free Futures: Bob Kafka Interviews Diane Coleman About NDY & COVID-19

…a couple of times. And [if] people don’t know, please go on to Tom Olin’s website or Facebook page, because it’s amazing, his photography. But when did you start Not Dead Yet? And it really – that name is sort of grabbing. How did that begin and what is the mission of Not Dead Yet? Diane Coleman: Well, I started it on April 27, 1996 so, that’s almost 24 years ago now. And, it was actually, a number of people had been talking to me about starting…

Not Dead Yet Comments on the Proposal to Update and Clarify Language in the DCD (Donation after Cardiac Death)

…y man fights to die, then tests life, New York Times, Feb. 7, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/07/us/an-angry-man-fights-to-die-then-tests-life.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.) The courts uniformly ignored the demand for freedom from confinement in a nursing facility and the need for home care, and uniformly found a “right to die.” Years later, one of the bioethicists involved in the Rivlin case issued an apology to the disability rights activists…

Amicus Brief in Disability Rights Wisconsin v. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, et al.

…ayed For Sick Daughter, Huffington Post, Jul. 3, 2013, available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/03/madeline-kara-neumann-prayer-death_n_3539974.html. [2] In In the Matter of the Guardianship of L.W., 167 Wis. 2d 53, 482 N.W. 2d 60 (Wis. 1992), the Wisconsin Supreme Court carved out a limited exception to this principle for situations in which the individual is in a persistent vegetative state. Amici note, without commenting on this excep…