…ions. MY CONFRONTATION WITH KEVORKIAN’S LAWYER By Ronald Seigel September 6, 2008 Columnist Leonard Pitts of (The Miami Herald) wrote that he tells journalistic students “if you ever propound an argument, and all the other side can do is to have a tantrum, you can consider yourself the winner by default.” One might add that whenever a reporter asks question and all he gets is a tantrum, it is of utmost importance that he keep asking questions, and…
…e. Without my ventilator, I don’t have years to live. I don’t have 6 months, 6 weeks, or 6 days, I have hours. I have a terminal condition – very much like ALS, and I would be covered by this bill. I understand the sponsors have said this bill is not for the disabled, but respectfully the sponsors are incorrect. This bill directly affects me, my family and my community. If I were to become depressed, either situational depression, or major depress…
…ion.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 colored shirt. The legislative session is in full swing in states across the US, and it is j…
…e no one needs to die in severe pain. The issue is not that appropriate end-of-life care does not exist, it’s that it isn’t accessible to everyone. Good palliative care gives people a range of options about what curative treatments they wish to continue or discontinue, whether they want to be at home or in a medical setting, and what comfort measures they want to use. Giving everyone access to this range of options is a genuine example of bodily a…
…itions at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. (Am. Compl. ¶¶ 16-17, 21.) Their positions may significantly influence patients and families considering withdrawal of medical care. Indeed, in his article discussing end-of-life decision-making regarding children with disabilities, Fost acknowledged that public support for ending the lives of children with disabilities by withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration is “largely affected…
