…ition paper entitled “Assisted Suicide: A Disability Perspective.” (http://www.ncd.gov/publications/1997/03241997) This was shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to assisted suicide but suggested that individual states might experiment with statutes related to it. At this crucial juncture, NCD showed great leadership by stating: Current evidence indicates clearly that the interests of the few people who…

…serving’ Law Raises Questions for Doctors, Stateline, May 16, 2013, http://www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline/headlines/oklahomas-life-preserving-law-raises-questions-for-doctors-85899476549   [iii] T Pope, Defending Disability Discrimination, Bioethics.net, May 31, 2013, http://www.bioethics.net/2013/05/defending-disability-discrimination/   [iv] A Ne’eman, et al., Organ Transplantation and People with I/DD: A Review of Research, Policy and Nex…

…s after Thomas Middleton died, Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited $90,000 into her own account. It took a federal investigation into real estate fraud to expose this abuse. Sawyer was indicted for first degree criminal mistreatment and first-degree aggravated theft, partly over criminal mistreatment of Thomas Middleton. But the Oregon state agency responsible for the assisted suicide law never even noticed. (Sawyer Arraigned on Stat…

…tal drugs were administered by the person or their surrogate. (See https://www.kcba.org/newsevents/barbulletin/BView.aspx?Month=07&Year=2011&AID=article10.htm.) It all comes back to the conclusion I reached about the New Mexico case when I wrote about it in the Not Dead Yet blog: The New Mexico plaintiffs are all people who seem privileged enough to be justified in their confidence that the patient in this case will not be coerced into assisted su…