….com/news/2018/jan/11/diabetics-eligible-physician-assisted-suicide-oreg/; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xOZfLFrvuQcazZfFudEncpzp2b18NrUo/view [2] Lisa I. Iezzoni, et al., Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care, https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01452 [3] https://ncd.gov/sites/default/files/NCD_Assisted_Suicide_Report_508.pdf [4] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Revised-OR-WA-Abu…
…Thoughts has taken a leading role in opposing the ballot measure, and has been featured in the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and on local TV and radio. For full features of release, go to: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9517524.htm Petition to Amend Ballot Language: http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2012/05/17/9517524/Petition%20to%20Amend%20Ballot%20Title%20and%20Yes%20Statement2.pdf…
…ontana, reported and unreported (http://web.archive.org/web/20101021101332/http://www.eadaily.com/15/elder-abuse-statistics/). Statistically, 90 percent of elder abusers are a family member or trusted other. Similarly, people with disabilities are up to four times more likely to be abused than their same-age nondisabled peers. In Oregon and Washington, legal assisted suicide has opened new paths of abuse against persons who “qualify” to use these…
…stimated by the person on whose coastal property it sits, to be about 85. (http://fragileandwild.com/2013/04/11/slow-death-and-the-felling-of-trees/#more-293) Although the tree might have fallen at any time, that surgical “lopping” will inevitably cause its death albeit much more slowly than would a “fell-swoop”. It wasn’t the similarity in our ages (mine and that of the tree) that grabbed my attention nor was it the fact that I actually know the…
…The Boston Globe published my piece on our clash with the death promoters. http://www.ragged-edge-mag.com/extra/ndykellyoped.htm In the 1990s, I went to graduate school at Brandeis in order to study with one of the founders of Disability Studies, Irving Zola. I loved studying and learning, but realized that I preferred a life of activism to academia. My research led to a couple of articles in the Ragged Edge, on how fear of incontinence helps fuel…
