New Press Release from ‘No on 2’ (Mass.) – State Rep. John Rogers (D-Norwood) says ‘No’ to Ballot Question 2

…oalition of disability rights organizations, doctors, nurses, community leaders, faith based groups and patient rights advocates.   www.NoOnQuestion2.org www.Twitter.com/NoOnQuestion2MA www.Facebook.com/NoOnBallotQuestion2  …

Cathy Ludlum Testifies – “Many people are hanging on by a thread.”

…l Aid in Dying (ACAMAID), Aid in Dying Ethics Consultation Service https://www.acamaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ethics-Consultation-Anorexia-Nervosa-9-3-21.pdf 4 Fabian Stahle, “Oregon Health Authority Reveals Hidden Problems with the Oregon Assisted Suicide Model” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xOZfLFrvuQcazZfFudEncpzp2b18NrUo/view 5 “Diabetics Eligible for Physician Assisted Suicide Oregon, ” The Washington Times https://www.washingtonti…

Not Dead Yet Comments on the Proposal to Update and Clarify Language in the DCD (Donation after Cardiac Death)

…lities: Medical Procedures that Violate Civil Rights, at pp. 10-11. http://www.ndrn.org/images/Documents/Resources/Publications/Reports/Devaluing_People_with_Disabilities.pdf The NDRN report states that reliance on ethics committees and consultations are insufficient protections of a patient’s legal rights and that hospitals and other providers must “establish and implement due process protections to ensure the civil rights of a person with a disa…

Barrier Free Futures: Bob Kafka Interviews Diane Coleman About NDY & COVID-19

…ive that information. Diane Coleman: Sure. Well, our website is notdeadyet.org. Just three words all together, no spaces, notdeadyet.org, and then DREDF is Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, the acronym D-R-E-D-F.org and actually, if you just go there at this point, the first thing there is the COVID, the link to their COVID resources and so, that’s the easiest way to find that. Bob Kafka: And hasn’t there been, I know – I think, four s…

NDY Letter to New Mexico Attorney General Gary King Urging Appeal of Assisted Suicide Case

…tal drugs were administered by the person or their surrogate. (See https://www.kcba.org/newsevents/barbulletin/BView.aspx?Month=07&Year=2011&AID=article10.htm.) It all comes back to the conclusion I reached about the New Mexico case when I wrote about it in the Not Dead Yet blog: The New Mexico plaintiffs are all people who seem privileged enough to be justified in their confidence that the patient in this case will not be coerced into assisted su…