…sted suicide later that very month. Middleton had named Sawyer his estate trustee and put his home in her trust. Two days 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 Middl…
…y wrote said in an email to me, this news out of South Korea fits in the “truly vile” category. That means it calls for attention and action. Briefly, four men have been convicted of repeatedly raping a sixteen-year old with developmental disabilities. The convicted are three of her uncles and her grandfather. News reports suggest the sexual assaults started when the girl was nine years old. The four men have all been given suspended sentences. Bu…
…suicide candidate testified one of the members showed him how they would hold his hands so he could not remove a helium bag from his face that would help him die.” There is no telling when the judge will rule, or what that ruling will be. Luckily, the judge will most likely be evaluating the arguments presented in court – and not the mostly sloppy press coverage of FEN. –Stephen Drake…
…of arrests of members of the Final Exit Network (FEN) in Georgia made the news in February, 2009 – there was a disturbing allegation in addition to assisting/facilitating the suicide of John Celmer, a man who had gone through tough cancer treatments, but was cancer-free at the time of his death. The following is an excerpt posted in the NDY blog taken from an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution – an article that is now only available thro…
…at disabled people are viewed by society as a whole. The news comes as the BBC announced that it is to screen a documentary where novelist Sir Terry Pratchett, a supporter of euthanasia, follows a man as he travels to Swiss clinic Dignitas to end his life. Meanwhile actor Sir Patrick Stewart has thrown his weight behind the Dignity in Dying campaign. On the other side of the debate Care Not Killing has slammed the BBC as a “cheerleader for assiste…
