…online vigil and chat starting at 8 PM ET. Here’s the info from the site: Online Vigil and Chat Disabled People of Tsukui Yamayuri En Sagamihara, Japan Thursday, August 4, 2016 8 pm Eastern 9 am Japan (Aug. 5) The Disability Visibility Project will be partnering with disabled filmmaker and activist Dominick Evans in an online vigil and chat remembering the 19 disabled people of the Tsukui Yamayuri En residential care facility in Sagamihara, Jap…
…d suicide law, themselves show that non-terminal people are getting lethal prescriptions — up to 1,009 days have passed between the request for assisted suicide and death. One of the many things the reports hide is specifically how many lived longer than six months, but we do know that those people were disabled and not terminal when they sought their lethal prescription. We also know that there’s no consequence to the assisting doctors for this o…
…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 …
…s Four Percent of Death Row Inmates are Innocent.” April 28, 2014. https://www.innocenceproject.org/national-academy-of-sciences-reports-four-percent-of-death-row-inmates-are-innocent/ 12-15% of hospice enrollees outlive six-month terminal window Pamela Harris, et al., “Can Hospices Predict which Patients Will Die within Six Months?,” J Palliat Med. 2014 Aug 1; 17(8): 894–898. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2013.0631 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PM…
…suicide,” Carroll stated. “As long these external influences exist, the promise of a choice to end one’s life is a lie.” The disability organizations testifying against the bill are part of the New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide (nosuicideny.org), an informal association of many diverse organizations committed to preventing the legalization of assisted suicide in the state. Kathryn Carroll’s testimony for CDR is online in PDF and HTML form…
