…zabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Bill Judiciary Committee February 13, 2021 I am submitting testimony as a person with an advanced neuromuscular condition. I’m also the founder and President of Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide. I have personal experience with the uncertainty of terminal predictions by doctors, as well as the risks of assisted suicide laws for people who use breat…
…m were previously unaware of the Statement. In early 2023, according to an online AAS posting, the Statement was “retired.” Disability activist Meghan Schrader discussed the original Statement and its retirement in her recent article published in the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition blog, which criticizes Thaddeus Pope and others who favor expanding eligibility for assisted suicide to include disabled people without a “terminal” prognosis. The foll…
…to End of Life Options” Massachusetts Committee on Public Health October 1, 2021 Diane Coleman I am submitting testimony as a person with an advanced neuromuscular condition. I’m also the founder and President of Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide. I have personal experience with the uncertainty of terminal predictions by doctors, as well as the risks of assisted suicide laws for people w…
…’s assisted suicide, and it needs to be stopped Hartford Courant, March 16, 2021 Lisa Blumberg It defies imagination that Connecticut is contemplating legalizing assisted suicide when COVID-19 deaths have exceeded 500,000 nationwide. The virus has laid bare the inequities and prejudices of our health system. Low-income people and people of color are dying at disproportionately high rates. Connecticut has the highest COVID-19 nursing home death rat…
…that, took some anti-nausea medication, and typed off a “comment” for the online copy of Dincin’s piece. Then I reworked it and submitted it as a “reader comment” aka “letter to the editor.” It was accepted and published online. I am told that it was published on the Opinion page of the print edition of the Sun today (June 9). Here is my response to the latest FEN propaganda piece: As the research analyst for a national disability rights group th…
