November 9, 2015 Via online submission to www.regulations.gov U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights Attention: 1557 RFI (RIN 0945-AA02) Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 509F 200 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20201 Re: 1557 NPRM (RIN 0945–AA02) Not Dead Yet is a national disability rights group, which advocates for non-discrimination against people with disabilities in the context of what is often referred…
…ere they or their organizations even mentioned in the Times Union article. Online photos featured people with obvious disabilities, but the article otherwise ignored them. And it’s not that the article ran out of space. The Times Union spent three paragraphs talking about a recent visit by an out-of-state proponent of legalizing assisted suicide. They even found space to mention someone in the room who didn’t speak: “Though no religious leaders sp…
…ave written numerous opinion pieces published in mainstream newspapers and online news outlets. Read more about our Op-Eds. Articles Numerous powerful and thoughtful articles by Not Dead Yet Board members, staff and volunteers have been published in both mainstream and disability media outlets on a wide range of topics related to the organization’s goals. Read moreabout our Articles . Blog Not Dead Yet publishes a blog to highlight news and provid…
…Dead Yet and Second Thoughts Massachusetts. The hearing video is available online and these testimonies begin approximately at minute markers 35 and 49. Written testimony was submitted by Not Dead Yet president and CEO Diane Coleman and Cathy Ludlum of Second Thoughts Connecticut. At the start of the hearing, Chair Joseph McNamara announced the bill would be sent to study, which he said would keep the bill alive with the possibility of being amend…
…problems, and complications associated with assisted suicide laws. The new online resource is located at http://patientsrightsaction.org/stories. California’s assisted suicide law, which is modeled on Oregon’s law, is marked by extraordinarily weak safeguards and oversight, posing great danger to many Californians with disabilities. as well as people with chronic and terminal illnesses, lower-income Californians, and to the general public. DREDF a…
