…You can check out that blog post here.) Journalist Mike Bassett has a new online article out in Today’s Geriatric Medicine. It involves the latest initiative from “End of Life Washington” (EOLWA). As mentioned above, it’s been discussed on this blog before. While disability activists and others in the social justice community have been rallying around the threats to the ADA, Medicaid, Medicare and other vital parts of the social safety net, organ…
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll in 2013, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We disabled people have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre and insulting the idea that personal dignity is somehow lost through phy…
…law co-author Barbara Coombs Lee last fall at a Connecticut forum. As the online journal CTNewsJunkie reported, “Coombs Lee also said the [Oregon-style] legislation would exclude people with dementia and cognitive declines, since they could not make the choice for themselves. ‘It is an issue for another day but is no less compelling,’” she said. Coombs Lee is now the president of the group Compassion & Choices, the saccharine rebranding of the ol…
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll in 2013, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We, people with disabilities,have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre and insulting the idea that personal dignity is somehow lost t…
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll in 2013, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We disabled people have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre and insulting the idea that personal dignity is somehow lost through phy…
