Canada: Woman Goes on Hunger Strike After Being Denied Basic Care – Help Needed

…to) (705) 674-9252 1028 South Bay Rd. Sudbury, ON P3E 6J7 Website: http://www.maisonsudburyhospice.org/ Resident Care Coordinator Elaine Klym: elaine@maisonsudburyhospice.org Executive Director is Léo Therrie 5. If you will be in Ontario on January 23, consider joining a protest and march on Minna’s behalf. 6. Join the Facebook group, “Minna’s Hunger Strike–Call to Action for an ALS Patient Denied Care” to learn the latest news on what is happeni…

New Vlog: Legislative Updates!

…. Please consider signing up– it doesn’t commit you to anything, it just lets us know that you’re interested. Together, we can protect our most vulnerable community members and affirm the value of disabled lives. Thanks for watching! To learn more about us and what we do, please visit www.notdeadyet.org. And hey, if you want to stay updated on what we’re doing, consider subscribing to our blog. You’ll get an email when we post about an event, arti…

NDY Activist Mike Reynolds Testifies Against Maine Assisted Suicide Bills

…rned about their health care and with real issues affecting access to health care, and even critical treatments such as organ transplants becoming a political issue, now is not the time for this law. 1.https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/A-Deadly-Model-Suicide-Contagion.pdf 2.http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/09/portland_suicides_almost_three.html 3.http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/742070_3…

NDY Comments On Adult Protective Service Guidelines – Assisted Suicide

…Mom capable of choosing to die? Oregonian, Oct. 17, 1999. Updated: http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2015/02/physician-assisted_suicide_a_f.html) Kathryn Judson wrote of bringing her seriously ill husband to the doctor in Oregon. “I collapsed in a half-exhausted heap in a chair once I got him into the doctor’s office, relieved that we were going to get badly needed help (or so I thought),” she wrote. “To my surprise and horror, during th…

Barbara Mancini Case: Compassion & Choices Uses the Case as Opportunity to Launch “Legal Defense” Fundraising Drive

…acy. I”m in this, too, btw: According to Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet, an organization opposing legalization of assisted suicide, barbiturates are more effective and more commonly used than opiates, such as morphine, for individuals intending to assist with a suicide. The Mancini case shouldn’t be prosecuted, said Drake, because it doesn’t fit the parameters of assisted suicide and will be hard to prove. “It helps to perpetuate the illusion that…