Denounce Lethal Anti-Disability Healthcare Policy Advocated by Peter Singer (Change.org)

…Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” is also broadcast and archived on his website. Singer’s remarks from the show were first reported by WND in a story. Not Dead Yet paid a subscription fee to Klein’s website to access the show and verify the quotes. Singer was on Klein’s show as part of his media promotion of a new book, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. Unlike most interviewers, Klein decide…

DREDF Testimony by Marilyn Golden, Senate Health Committee 3-25-2015 re SB 128

…later that very month. Thomas Middleton had named Tami Sawyer his estate trustee and put his home in her trust. Two days after he died, Tami Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited $90,000 into her own account. It took a federal investigation into real estate fraud to expose this abuse. Tami Sawyer was indicted for first- degree criminal mistreatment and first-degree aggravated theft, partly over criminal mistreatment of Thomas Middleto…

Disability Rights Toolkit for Advocacy Against Legalization of Assisted Suicide

…ith a history of depression and suicide attempts have received the lethal drugs. Pressure: Financial and emotional pressures can also make people choose death. Unnecessary: Everyone already has the right to refuse treatment and get full palliative care, including, if dying in pain, pain-relieving palliative sedation. No true safeguards: The safeguards are hollow, with no enforcement or investigation authority. Our quality of life underrated: Socie…

NDY Joins Autistic Self Advocacy Network, ADAPT and NCIL in Annual Day of Mourning

…their own murder at the hands of the person they should have been able to trust the most, and ultimately forgotten. And then the cycle repeats. For the last four years, ASAN, ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, the National Council on Independent Living, the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, and other disability rights organizations have come together at local vigils across the country to mourn those losses, bring awareness to these tragedies, and dema…

Press Release: NDY & 6 Other National Disability Groups Submit Friend-of-the-Court Brief in New Mexico Assisted Suicide Appeal

…f itself is available as an attachment to the PRWeb release and on the NDY site under “Court Cases” here.] On August 22, 2014, Not Dead Yet submitted a Disability Rights friend-of-the-court brief in support of the New Mexico Attorney General’s appeal seeking to overturn a district court ruling that the New Mexico constitution contains a right to assisted suicide (Morris v. King, Case No. 33,630, Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico). Six ot…