…Health Care: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33523… FilmDis Study: https://www.filmdis.com/wp-content/up… Michael Hickson Case: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/896882… Recording/Transcript between Melissa Hickson and doctor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq-_g… TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome back to the Not Dead Yet vlog! My name is Jules Good, I use they/them pronouns, and I’m the Assistant Director and Policy Analyst at Not Dead Yet. I’m a white…
…lities. This would not be possible without the vital work of our volunteer site coordinators. Click here to learn about what site coordinators do, or to sign up to lead a vigil. For the last six years, ASAN, ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, the National Council on Independent Living, the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, the American Association of People with Disabilities, and other disability rights organizations have come together to send a clear…
…sy, with Clair Lewis currently listed as the sole other contributor on the site. The site covers a range of subjects – media, elder care, eugenics, euthanasia – to name a few. Here’s a brief description of the of the site from the source: Better Off Alive is a community for people who have been denied wanted health care or who have been encouraged to hasten their own deaths because they live with disabilities or chronic medical circumstances. Our…
…s just a publicity stunt. I’m not sure, in terms of average traffic to the site, if 150,000 is an impressive result or not. Let’s hope it’s less than Mr. David was hoping for. He could always give it a try again – and for real this time. Would it go over well with the BattleCam audience? I only watched a “video tour” of the site. That short video featured a young guy setting his hair on fire, apparently winning a 500 dollar “prize” for doing so. A…
…in futility policies and we see that, and anybody can look those up there online on their site, to see the extent of the problem, which normally people don’t pay much attention to it, but it’s becoming ever more relevant. Bob Kafka: Yeah. I mean the argument I hear the most is that medicine has advanced so much that we’re keeping people alive, whatever. But wasn’t there a case where a young disabled student, a nurse, without even notifying the fa…
