…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…
…Right to Die Societies, stated: “Similar to other social issues, the right-to-die movement has not arisen separate and distinct from other concurrent developments of our time. In attempting to answer the question Why Now?, one must look at the realities of the increasing cost of health care in an aging society, because in the final analysis, economics, not the quest for broadened individual liberties or increased autonomy, will drive assisted sui…
…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…
