…e known the “terminally ill” claim was a load of crap if they followed the news in their own state. Considering they are supposed to cover the news Arizona, that would seem to be a minimum standard. See, Wettstein carefully avoided mentioning the death of Jana van Voorhis, who committed suicide with the assistance of FEN members in 2007. Voorhis had minor physical ailments, but had struggled for years with emotional and psychiatric issues. Her dea…
…ittle Rock action. Not Dead Yet troubadour Elaine Kolb brought musical instruments to the protest, so I got to whack a cowbell with a stick in my mouth and hum into a kazoo that I don’t think many people could hear, as the chanting was very loud! In the afternoon, I got to be part of a small delegation to the Tribune building, where we didn’t have much luck getting the attention of a distracted lunch-eating radio staffer. The Tribune had run a puf…
…of Will Rogers, who said “I never met a man I didn’t like.” In the Bizarro world of Egbert and company, it runs like this: “I (almost) never saw a suicide plea from someone who didn’t deserve to die.” From the article: As medical director and co-founder of the Georgia-based Final Exit Network, Egbert in the past four years approved the applications of people who wanted to die because they were diagnosed with terminal cancer. He approved the applic…
…for what society has done to us. Unless society changes, more blatant and brutal acts of disability hate, such as the one that ended in the 19 deaths a year ago, are guaranteed to happen again. Today is a day to mourn. Tomorrow – and every day – is the time to organize our disability rights and independent living movement. Organize and advocate for a world that respects the disability community for all our diversity and beauty. Organize and advoca…
…ly only for those with “terminal” conditions, many of us would not be here today. I might not be here today, and I’m grateful that assisted suicide was not legal back then, and I’m committed to keeping it that way. This is an important reason why the National Council on Independent Living opposes the legalization of assisted suicide. NCIL is a leader in the disability rights movement, our political struggle for equal rights. And, among other thing…
