Contact: Deidre Hammon 775-544-9338 Legislative Committee Does An End Run Around Disability Advocates March 14, 2023 A bill to legalize medically assisted suicide is being railroaded through the Nevada legislature in a manner that appears designed to exclude the voices of people with disabilities, people put most at risk if this bill passes. The assisted suicide bill was added to today’s Senate Health and Human Services Committee hearing agenda a…
…et involved in activism around this issue? Fill out this quick form: https://secure.everyaction.com/8FDj6L… Subscribe to our blog here: http://notdeadyet.org/subscribe-to-ou… TRANSCRIPT: Hello and welcome back to the NDY vlog! My name is Jules Good, I use they/them pronouns, and I’m the Assistant Director and Policy Analyst at Not Dead Yet. I’m a white person with short wavy brown hair wearing pink-rimmed round glasses, a blue blazer, and a cream…
…Rights. CDR Position Paper: Suicide Prevention and Assisted Suicide. http://cdrnys.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Assisted-Suicide-Position-Paper.pdf. [2] Patients Rights Action Fund, DREDF. A Primer on Assisted Suicide Laws. Available at https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/a-primer-on-assisted-suicide-laws.pdf. [3] Myers v. Schneiderman. 28 N.Y.3d 1131 (2017) [4] (Death With Dignity Act Annual Reports, 2016). [5]Oregon Health Authority…
…t to someone not at the end of life (or permanently unconscious) and a life-long incapacitated person, like David, cannot have a health care agent. Mr. Ulan emphasized that the Commonwealth has made a policy decision through the enactment of Act 169 that it is not permissible to withhold life-preserving treatment to incapacitated persons not in an end-of-life situation or permanently unconscious. At the end of the argument, Jane Adams, the lawyer…
…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…
