Joan Cavanagh: State needs health care, not “death with dignity”

April 3, 2021"death with dignity", aid in dying, assisted suicide, Connecticut, futility, healthcare rationing, Joan Cavanagh, life-sustaining treatment, op-ed, Our News & Commentary Blog, quality of life judgments, Second Thoughts Connecticutassisted suicide, Connecticut, death with dignity, medical discrimination, Second Thoughts ConnectcutDiane Coleman

…ril 3.] State needs health care, not “death with dignity” Joan Cavanagh Apr 1, 2021 Anyone who has been with loved ones facing serious, painful illness will empathize deeply with the testimonies in Ed Stannard’s Sunday, March 21 article. I have. And I do. But as an anti-war, anti-death penalty, pro-choice, human rights advocate who has been compelled to fight attempts by the medical system to restrict and withhold treatment, I also contend that th…

Carol Cleigh Sutton: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident…

December 17, 2020ableism, aid in dying, assisted suicide, better dead than disabled, bioethics, Carol Cleigh Sutton, euthanasia, healthcare rationing, Our News & Commentary Blogbetter dead than disabled, euthanasia, nonvoluntary euthanasia, W. Carol CleighDiane Coleman

…y kills “the unproductive.” That is, until a good friend of his died. The truth is that the history of human civilization is a tension between two positions: hierarchy of value and equity of value. Either we value all human lives equally or we don’t. Many ideologies defend hierarchy, Divine Right to Social Darwinism to Utilitarianism have tried to normalize the rejection of equality. Of these, Social Darwinism and Utilitarianism seek to ‘perfect’…

Diane Coleman: What the COVID Crisis Tells Us About the Dangers of Assisted Suicide

February 2, 2021"death with dignity", ableism, access to health care, aid in dying, assisted suicide, better dead than disabled, bioethics, COVID-19, diane coleman, end-of-life options bills, health disparities, healthcare rationing, medical discrimination, national council on disability, Our News & Commentary Blogaid in dying, assisted suicide, COVID-19, Diane Coleman, end of life options, healthcare disparities, healthcare rationing, medical discriminationDiane Coleman

…itive disabilities caused by brain injury, who died at the hospital on June 11, 2020. A complaint to OCR stated, “[T]he hospital refused to provide him treatment for his COVID 19, because of his disabilities. One of the doctors, in response to Mrs. Hickson asking if the reason they would not treat him was because of his lack of quality of life due to his disabilities, responded yes.” Racial disparities in denial of healthcare treatments also incre…

‘Uncontrollable freight train’ | Persons with disabilities speak out against DE assisted suicide bill

January 19, 2022"death with dignity", aid in dying, assisted suicide, Delaware, end-of-life options bills, healthcare rationing, Matt Valliere, medical discrimination, Our News & Commentary Blogassisted suicide, Delaware, end of life options, press coverageDiane Coleman

…ese bills give us and show us.” The public can attend the House Health and Human Development Committee meeting on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, to listen in on discussion or provide their own comment on the issue by registering at this link. [Written testimony may be submitted through Jan. 20.] And more coverage, quoting Daniese McMullin-Powell: Opponents of Delaware HB 140: ‘Relieving symptoms doesn’t mean you have to die to relieve them’ “HB 140…

Anita Cameron: Health Disparities and Medical Abuse: Why Blacks Shouldn’t Support Assisted Suicide

June 17, 2022ableism, Anita Cameron, assisted suicide, bigotry, civil rights, COVID-19, discrimination, experimentation, health disparities, medical discrimination, Michael Hickson, Our News & Commentary Blog, racismAnita Cameron, assisted suicide, healthcare disparities, Juneteenth, medical aid in dying, medical discrimination, racial disparities, racismDiane Coleman

…y. We are accused of being hysterical, emotional, malingering or outright drug seeking. In a recent study of 1 million children with appendicitis in emergency rooms around the nation, Black children were one-fifth as likely to receive opioid painkillers for their severe pain as white children.[2] In a 2016 study, 1/3 of 222 white medical students and residents surveyed held the false belief that Blacks had thicker skins, like animals, and a higher…