Organ Donation by Death Row Inmates – Get Ready to Start Hearing More About How it’s “Good” for Everyone

March 11, 2011Art Caplan, Ben Goldhirsh, bioethics, crime and punishment, death penalty, Dylan Ratigan, Eric Meslin, good magazine, Graeme Wood, Kevorkian, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality check, Wesley SmithStephen Drake

…ic Meslin and Ben Goldhirsh, the CEO of Good: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy If you highlight selections at the bottom of the video screen, accurate subtitles will run on the video – there is also a selection for a transcript. This was no “debate” on the issue. Both Meslin and Goldhirsh gave their one-sided arguments in favor of allowing organ donations from Death Row inmates. Ratigan, who is generally ve…

Arizona Daily Star Allows Final Exit Network Activist Free Rein in Terms of “Spin” and Outright Lies

March 24, 2009assisted suicide, final exit network, media issues, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality checkStephen Drake

…e known the “terminally ill” claim was a load of crap if they followed the news in their own state. Considering they are supposed to cover the news Arizona, that would seem to be a minimum standard. See, Wettstein carefully avoided mentioning the death of Jana van Voorhis, who committed suicide with the assistance of FEN members in 2007. Voorhis had minor physical ailments, but had struggled for years with emotional and psychiatric issues. Her dea…

WA, USA: Assisted Suicide Advocates Push Documents for People with Dementia to “Refuse” Spoon-Feeding

November 4, 2017advance directives, assisted suicide, Our News & Commentary Blog, spoon-feeding, Washington stateadvance directives, assisted suicide, dementia, spoon-feeding, Washington stateStephen Drake

…y Kaiser Health News. The original article can be found at https://khn.org/news/new-instructions-could-let-dementia-patients-refuse-spoon-feeding/ and is republished here, according to the guidelines of Kaiser Health News. A “right to die” organization based in Washington state is pushing a new advanced directive that would allow people with dementia to refuse to be fed by hand – using an advanced directive. The guidelines are allegedly straightfo…

John Kelly Gives His Take on the NDY Protest of the World Federation Conference

September 24, 2014Our News & Commentary BlogDiane Coleman

…ittle Rock action. Not Dead Yet troubadour Elaine Kolb brought musical instruments to the protest, so I got to whack a cowbell with a stick in my mouth and hum into a kazoo that I don’t think many people could hear, as the chanting was very loud! In the afternoon, I got to be part of a small delegation to the Tribune building, where we didn’t have much luck getting the attention of a distracted lunch-eating radio staffer. The Tribune had run a puf…

Blast From the Past – 2009 Musings on Final Exit Network, Zealotry and Groupthink

November 15, 2012assisted suicide, final exit network, Frontline, Georgia, groupthink, homicide, murder, Our News & Commentary BlogStephen Drake

…of Will Rogers, who said “I never met a man I didn’t like.” In the Bizarro world of Egbert and company, it runs like this: “I (almost) never saw a suicide plea from someone who didn’t deserve to die.” From the article: As medical director and co-founder of the Georgia-based Final Exit Network, Egbert in the past four years approved the applications of people who wanted to die because they were diagnosed with terminal cancer. He approved the applic…