…ing a meeting on Friday, March 20 that’s open to the public and accessible online. Not Dead Yet committed to work on advance care planning and professional education. To be honest, we aren’t necessarily doing what the IOM has in mind. We are very concerned that health care providers don’t always discern the difference between providing “end-of-life” care and ending lives prematurely due to negative quality of life judgments about disability. We ar…
…icide. The three editorials can be viewed in their entirety in the paper’s online archive. They serve to remind us how little accurate information about the issue is out there in the mainstream media. The first opinion writer pointed out that Jack Kevorkian was arrested many times and found not guilty “until 1997, when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for people who could not take their own life to be helped along the way. However, thos…
…assisted suicide fight come to your state in full swing? NDY’s got a great online toolkit to help you sound like the policy buff you really are on this topic and help give you fodder for writing a letter to the editor the next time your hometown paper touts the proposed bill’s virtues! (Be sure to write us and tell us if your letter is published!) Coalition Support. Do you lead a nonprofit that would love to partner with NDY on activities related…
…ave written numerous opinion pieces published in mainstream newspapers and online news outlets. Here are examples: Pam Heavens: Do not support legalizing physician-assisted suicide (Times Weekly, 10/02/24) Phil Friend (NDY UK): ‘What we want you to do is to help disabled people to thrive, not to die – so overturn assisted dying’ (Jersey Evening Post, 04/29/24) Jules Good: Disabled people need ‘supports to live, not tools to die’ (Seacoast Online,…
…welve op-eds published in mainstream outlets. NDY staff posted at least 14 online comments and one letter to the editor was published. NDY staff, board and advocates were interviewed for 8 radio and 11 TV broadcasts. There were at least 41 print or online articles that mentioned NDY, including Associated Press, New York Times, Politico, Huffington Post and Forbes. Systems Advocacy: NDY staff and advocates pursued a number of key systems advocacy p…
