…“friends.” Part of her information and “encouragement” came from ASH – alt-suicide-holiday, a newsgroup that is notorious for urging suicidal people standing on a ledge to jump. She also bought her copy of “Final Exit” through the web – no doubt through Derek Humphry’s ERGO site or through the Final Exit Network. It’s impossible to know just how many people she emailed or talked to – part of the detailed preparations she learned involved erasing…
…co is that it cannot possibly be real. But it is. The Sarco is like a Build-a-Bear workshop where you’re 3-D printing a death chamber for someone you can’t bear. As the ultimate status symbol of the rich and abled, the Sarco brings class, elegance, and sophistication to the more down-market dying experience of those you’ve given an adequately convincing appearance of loving. And the Sarco’s beautiful built-in coffin design means that it can do dou…
…futility decisions are too often based on a physician’s subjective quality-of-life judgments. Today, I’d like to focus on a legislative remedy that developed in Oklahoma to prohibit such quality-of-life judgments. In May 2013, Oklahoma passed the Nondiscrimination in Treatment Act (NITA), which states: “A health care provider shall not deny to a patient a life-preserving health care service the provider provides to other patients, and the provisi…
…futility decisions are too often based on a physician’s subjective quality-of-life judgments. Today, I’d like to focus on a legislative remedy that developed in Oklahoma to prohibit such quality-of-life judgments. In May 2013, Oklahoma passed the Nondiscrimination in Treatment Act (NITA), which states: “A health care provider shall not deny to a patient a life-preserving health care service the provider provides to other patients, and the provisi…
…ive in is how little time and attention are given to the very real life-and-death situations facing people in the UK in the face of draconian shredding of the social safety net for disabled people. Some of that shredding is already done and much more is to follow. The majority of people with disabilities in the UK are much more concerned with how they are going to survive in the face of these cuts rather than how they’re going to die – since these…
