…MMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Diane Coleman, JD 708-420-0539 Anita Cameron 720-413-9064 Thirty Years of Holding It Is Long Enough When I saw the words “Thirty Years of Holding It Is Long Enough“, I thought immediately of the years I spent as a state lawyer in California, not drinking until 2 p.m. in the afternoon because the office bathrooms were inaccessible. This was the 1980s, and at least two laws already required access, but the state used the e…
…indication, later explained, that Kevorkian’s chief motivation for his law-and-custom-defying actions was regret at having stood by helplessly as his mother endured a prolonged, excruciating death. Well, that’s a good story, but it may be just a story. And it’s a far cry from the whole story. What the film apparently avoids recounting is this: Kevorkian spent a couple of decades obsessed with the establishment of a medical specialty labeled “obit…
…essing this critical concern. [i] Nondiscrimination In Treatment Act, http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1403 [ii] M Ollove, Oklahoma’s ‘Life-Preserving’ Law Raises Questions for Doctors, Stateline, May 16, 2013, http://www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline/headlines/oklahomas-life-preserving-law-raises-questions-for-doctors-85899476549 [iii] T Pope, Defending Disability Discrimination, Bioethics.net, May 31, 2013, http://www.bio…
…5:30) smendelsohn5845@att.net Second Thoughts Connecticut Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SecondThoughtsConnecticut Twitter: https://twitter.com/2ndThoughtsCT Second Thoughts Connecticut Holds Counter Protest to Rally Sponsored by the Connecticut Catholic Conference April 6, 2021 (Manchester, CT) – On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, Second Thoughts Connecticut will hold a counter protest against the Freedom to Live Rally organized by the Connecticut…
…s about doctor-assisted suicide crystallized the night Mike — my wheelchair-using, ventilator-breathing boyfriend — choked on pineapple juice, passed out, and died. He was dead for several minutes, on a steel table in the ER. The doctor shocked the pulse back into his heart and dropped him into an induced coma, but it still wasn’t clear whether he would make it. As I stood by his bedside, shaking, one of the nurses touched me on the shoulder. “May…
