…a2.htm?s_cid=mm6936a2_w 4. Prejudice against disabled people: https://www.c-q-l.org/resources/articles/most-people-are-prejudiced-against-people-with-disabilities/ 5. Osteoarthritis stats: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920533/#:~:text=pain%20and%20disability.-,Osteoarthritis%20(OA)%20is%20the%20most%20common%20joint%20disorder%20in%20the,%25%20in%20women%20(2). 6. Disability, vulnerability, and assisted death: https://bmcmedethics….
…eople with disabilities in the context of what is often referred to as “end-of-life” care. We support the comments submitted by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, but wish to add comments specific to the issues of health care decision making. Introduction A couple of weeks ago, Not Dead Yet was contacted by two sisters who are daughters of a woman in the hospital. They claimed that a third sister had decided to withhold tube feeding and fluids fr…
…is bad medicine for California. Please oppose this risky, reckless bill. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Sources (in order cited): Jeanette Hall, King City, Oregon, Letter to the Editor, The Boston Globe, “She pushed for legal right to die, and – thankfully – was rebuffed,” October 4, 2011, available at http://articles.boston.com/2011-10-04/bostonglobe/30243525_1_suicide-doctor-ballot-initiative (accessed March 23, 2015). Mass…
…medical-rationing/ [2] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-bulletin-3-28-20.pdf?fbclid=IwAR351WokrC2uQLIPxDR0eiAizAQ8Q-XwhBt_0asYiXi91XW4rnAKW8kxcog [3] https://notdeadyet.org/2020/08/michael-hickson-disability-organizations-challenge-medical-futility-surrogate-decisions.html [4] See https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/features/unrecognizedpopulation.html, and https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6732a3.htm?s_cid=mm6732a3_w…
…sabilities, is worth living. Many misguided individuals have promulgated so-called “assisted-suicide” and euthanasia laws throughout the world that discriminate against elderly and disabled people by creating a state supported path to death. An all too common belief that a person is better off dead than severely disabled has been enacted as public policy. In Oregon, doctors report that people ask for assisted suicide because they feel like a burde…
