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Bill Peace’s Hastings Center Article (on a disturbing hospital experience) and Three Commentaries Are All Online

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…essay, and the three commentaries: Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood by William J. Peace Commentaries/Reactions to Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood: “Disability Discrimination” by Diane Coleman and Stephen Drake – We discuss evidence that Bill Peace’s account of feeling devalued and threatened in a healthcare setting may be just the tip of an ugly iceberg. “Disability Discrimination: Risky Business for “Consenting” Adults” – Philosopher Ani…

Bad Cripple: William Peace on the Assisted Suicide Debate, Tom Shakespeare – and Me

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Regular readers have probably come to expect periodic links to Bill Peace at his Bad Cripple Blog. His latest entry, posted on Sunday, is titled “Assisted Suicide: A Necessary but Depressing Debate.” It should come as no surprise when I strongly recommend that people who are interested in these issues read what he has to say. Part of his entry has to deal with Tom Shakespeare’s recent published support of the Falconer bill in the UK – and my crit…

Loose Ends – Last Two Essays on Bill Peace’s ‘Comfort Care As Denial of Personhood’ Up at Hastings Center Bioethics Forum

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…essay, and the three commentaries: Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood by William J. Peace Commentaries/Reactions to Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood: “Disability Discrimination” by Diane Coleman and Stephen Drake – We discuss evidence that Bill Peace’s account of feeling devalued and threatened in a healthcare setting may be just the tip of an ugly iceberg. “Disability Discrimination: Risky Business for “Consenting” Adults” – Philosopher Ani…

Three recommended reads: Bill Peace on “Ashley and Me,” L Syd M Johnson critque of Jacob Appel on PVS and April Michelle Herndon on the “Magic Pill” Question

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…ctivist. Going from the oldest to the newest: Ashley and Me was written by William J. Peace, a name that should be familiar to regular readers of this blog, since we’ve excerpted or pointed to his Bad Cripple blog numerous times. Bill’s essay on the forum is about Ashley X. – the pseudonym of the young girl who was subjected to surgical interventions to stunt her growth and prevent the changes that come with puberty. Here’s an excerpt from Bill’s…

YouTube: EZ Breezy Assisted Suicide w/ Bill Peace (and Tipsy Tullivan)

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2010 was a horrible year for friend and NDY board member Bill Peace. Here’s a summary from a post back in 2012: Back in 2010, our friend, colleague and ally Bill Peace, experienced a long, expensive health crisis when he experienced a stage IV skin breakdown – with a long treatment process that was physically and emotionally grueling by his own accounts. While Bill was hospitalized – and at one of his lowest points healthwise – he was subjected t…