Pallimed Blogger Doc Not Happy with Organ Procurement Proposals

June 26, 2013bioethics, donation after cardiac death, organ transplants, Our News & Commentary Blog, palliative care, pallimedbioethics, donation after cardiac death, organ transplantStephen Drake

…Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) meeting earlier this week to issue new sweeping rules on “Donation after Cardiac Death.” Good news, for now, BTW. We have been informed that the new guidelines have been tabled. Sinclair was especially alarmed by statements made by Dr. Stuart Youngner in the audio version of the NPR story that – quite frankly – we missed. Excerpt from Proposed Changes to Organ Donation Blur the Line on End of Life Care: Rolling into work…

RELEASE: Canadian Association for Community Living Relieved at Dismissal of Appeal in Rasouli Case

October 18, 2013Our News & Commentary BlogCanada, Canadian Association for Community Living, Rasouli, unilateral treatment withdrawalStephen Drake

…n making authority to physicians. Only providing recourse to apply for court injunctions is not the way to resolve decision-making challenges. In making clear that legislated procedures under the HCCA govern decision making, the Court has ruled against further barriers to justice and equality for people with disabilities and older persons. – See more at: http://www.cacl.ca/news-stories/blog/canadian-association-community-living-relieved-dismissal-…

John Kelly Talks About the Tim Bowers Case

December 5, 2013john kelly, life-ending decisions, national council on disability, ncd, Our News & Commentary Blog, quadriplegia, rush to judgment, spinal cord injury, suicide prevention, Tim Bowers, ventilatorDiane Coleman

…distorted and abused. Meaningful self-determination gets bypassed and obstructed in favor of a rush to judgment that cuts short the lives of newly disabled people based on ignorant and outmoded judgments about quality of life. We urge NCD to come up to speed on health care decisions laws because national guidance is needed to help reshape these laws to prevent discrimination in these life and death judgments. My written comments include action st…

Press Release: Not Dead Yet Joins National Day of Mourning Vigils Tomorrow in 23 U.S. Cities

February 28, 2014Our News & Commentary BlogDiane Coleman

…The total number of killings is likely higher than the number reported in news media. In addition, this count does not include elder homicides which which often involve elders who also have disabilities. In a horrifying trend, parents and caregivers, those whom one should be able to trust most, are committing murder against people with disabilities in their care. We must address violence against people with disabilities and speak out against the…

Press Release: Disability Activists from Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts to Testify in Opposition to Connecticut Assisted Suicide Bill

March 17, 2014Our News & Commentary BlogDiane Coleman

…ion. Modeled after the Massachusetts group of the same name, which was instrumental in defeating an assisted suicide ballot referendum in that state in 2012, the group says that a closer look at the details of assisted suicide proposals give people “second thoughts.” “The bill would establish a government recommendation that doctor-prescribed suicide is sometimes the best treatment,” said Kelly. “Innocent people who are not terminal and are not ma…