…ctors are Divided on Life and Death Issues by Lisa Blumberg Medscape is an online resource for healthcare professionals. It provides medical news and information and does surveys on current issues. (1) Its 2022 survey of 4100 U.S. doctors on “Right and Wrong in Medicine: Life, Death and Wrenching Choices” (2) indicates how divided doctors are on so-called life or death issues. I found aspects of the survey lacking in nuance and social context. For…
…wed for 8 TV, radio or podcast broadcasts. There were at least 26 print or online news articles covering NDY messaging, including in the Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, The Progressive Magazine, American Journal of Bioethics and Associated Press. Systems Advocacy: NDY staff and advocates pursued several key systems advocacy policy initiatives during the reporting year, using a combination of strategies and approaches. Assisted Suicide: NDY opposed…
…wed for 8 TV, radio or podcast broadcasts. There were at least 26 print or online news articles covering NDY messaging, including in the Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, The Progressive Magazine, American Journal of Bioethics and Associated Press. Systems Advocacy: NDY staff and advocates pursued several key systems advocacy policy initiatives during the reporting year, using a combination of strategies and approaches. Assisted Suicide: NDY opposed…
…ded video excerpts of the interview as well as the following quotes in the online article: But not everyone is convinced. Julie Farrar of the organization Not Dead Yet said the legislation sends the wrong message, especially to people with disabilities. Farrar believes the measure, in essence, tells people, “we are all cheaper dead, we are all less expensive if we need no treatment at all.” Farrar said instead, lawmakers should consider ways of ex…
…assisted suicide and death for each person. Prior to the 2020 report, the online state reports did not reveal how many people outlived the 6-month or 180-day terminal prognosis. Instead, the reports gave that year’s median and range of the number of days between the request for a lethal prescription and death. This was on page 13 of the 2019 annual report.[8] In 2019, at least one person lived 1503 days, the longest reported duration between the…
