…mes, Feb. 7, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/07/us/an-angry-man-fights-to-die-then-tests-life.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.) The courts uniformly ignored the demand for freedom from confinement in a nursing facility and the need for home care, and uniformly found a “right to die.” Years later, one of the bioethicists involved in the Rivlin case issued an apology to the disability rights activists who criticized these rulings: “I am now embarras…
…cases, there is no single, clear reason. – See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/lets_put_this_pet_theory_to_sleep#sthash.iGZcP18q.dpuf the statistics on the euthanasia rates of animal rates in shelters paint a grim picture. The reasons owners abandon them there aren’t very pretty either: * They are abandoned and unwanted. According to the American Humane Association, “56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter animal shelters are euth…
…der Joint Committee on Public Health H.2246 / S.1331 An Act Relative to end-of-life options October 20, 2023 As a disability rights advocate I stand strongly opposed to H.2264 and all efforts to legalize “Medical Aid in Dying” in the United States. -I teach people with intellectual disabilities at the University of Texas and have published research on eugenics and assisted suicide. Before that I lived in Massachusetts for 35 years. -A disabled Can…
…http://nationalpainreport.com/u-s-chronic-pain-practitioners-and-scientists-comment-on-oregon-forced-taper-proposal-8836865.html https://advocacymonitor.com/summary-of-the-draft-updated-guideline/ https://uploads.documents.cimpress.io/v1/uploads/e5010620-826f-4089-904d-cc801f268277~110/original?tenant=vbu-digital Schatman, M. et al., U.S. Chronic Pain Practitioners and Scientists Comment on Oregon Forced Taper Proposal (National Pain Report,July 3…
…favor the term “temporarily able-bodied” people) to guess at what the less- or non-disabled person they knew, before, would think about living “that way” now– as a person with disability in our society which so deprecates disability or illness or bodily weakness or frailty of any kind. Still, in New Jersey patient autonomy as interpreted by the surrogate decisionmakler is the law. With a PVS diagnosis, it is permissible– permissible, not mandator…
