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…ect vulnerable elders from assisted suicide coercion and abuse. For online examples of testimonies by disability advocates in various states, some are included on the NDY website under “Legislative Efforts.” Additional examples are attached to Not Dead Yet Press releases, such as Second Thoughts Massachusetts to Testify against Assisted Suicide Bill H 1998 and Disability Advocates From Not Dead Yet and New Jersey Disability Organizations Testify A…
…-seeking. (Source: https://www.afsp.org/content/download/1066/16814/file/recommendations.pdf) Over the last eight years, the activities of the Final Exit Network (FEN) – whose “exit guides” are claimed to have facilitated hundreds of suicides in the U.S. – have received national coverage. The greatest coverage has come from their role in the death of John Celmer of Georgia, clear of mouth cancer he’d been treated for, but deeply distressed over…
…n the State budget on April 2, 2020. Those cuts are described here: http://www.wnylc.com/health/news/85/#summary. [3] See generally Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Olmstead’s Role in Community Integration for People with Disabilities Under Medicaid: 15 Years After the Supreme Court’s Olmstead Decision (June 2014), available at https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/olmsteads-role-in-community-integration-for-people-with-disabili…
…fact what led to the OCR statement being issued, is that they were getting complaints that maybe local policies were becoming evident that would show what type of triage would take place. And I know that the New York policy, which is where I live, says that, people who are less likely to survive will be less likely to get ventilator support in the hospital. And there’s also concern that people who already use some type of advanced breathing suppor…
