…ce directives. A formal joint announcement is below and can also be viewed online on the Respecting Choices website, and the revised fact sheets are online (feeding tubes, breathing supports) and available for purchase from Respecting Choices. Dear Colleagues: In December 2013, a number of disability organizations and individuals jointly expressed their concerns about two healthcare decision-aids created by the Respecting Choices® program. One of…
…athers who kill their kids — and Roy Rogers. READ ARTICLE from Ragged Edge Online. Why we shouldn’t blame the murders of disabled kids on lousy services Dick Sobsey, Director of the JP Das Developmental Centre at the University of Alberta, offers 11 reasons. Look for Annie, Abuse. In 1995, journalist David Rundle read of the murder of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy — from starvation. He was appalled at the lack of passion with which the pe…
…l condition was identified as “severe protein calorie malnutrition.” Before 2021, no such cases were reported. In California in 2023, 11 people reported to have endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease died by assisted suicide. It is not known how many of these people in these states had eating disorders or restricted caloric intake for other reasons. Third, the ethicist Thaddeus Pope promotes voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) as…
…Y Officials Change Course Before The Next Crisis? BY CAROLINE LEWIS MAY 27, 2021 When COVID-19 struck New York last spring, many people feared they would land in the hospital and get put on a ventilator. But Diane Coleman was worried if she went to the hospital, the ventilator she relies on to breathe would get taken away. Her trepidation stemmed from guidance released by the state Health Department in 2015 on how ventilators should be allocated d…
…the Massachusetts State Joint Committee on Public Health for the October 1, 2021 Hearing on the — End-of-Life Options Act — H.2381 / S.1384 Oppose I write on behalf of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) to urge your strong opposition to the End-of-Life Options Act which would legalize assisted suicide, or aid in dying. The bill is dangerous and would have unintended negative consequences for people with disabilities, low-inco…
