Why Are We Here?

…xit Network is not really about the “right to die”, it’s about: Suicide how-to instructions and videos online; Exit Guides who assist old, ill and disabled people to die; Exit Guides who hold your arms down so you won’t “accidentally” remove the plastic “Exit Bag” after the gas that will kill you starts flowing.The World Federation of Right To Die Societies is not really about the “right to die”, it’s about: Doctors who euthanized deaf twins in Be…

Followup on Princetonian – and more thoughts from Bill Peace and Gary Presley

…step. According to the editor’s note and the email received from the Editor-in-Chief, he had no role in that. Mr. Jung got his facts straight and his editor screwed it up. I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Since it’s not the first time I’ve seen an editor to damage to a reporter’s factual account, I should have considered that possibility. When I posted this on Facebook, a couple of people who participated in the protest were really floored….

More on Falconer Bill: Open Letter from Leaders of Disabled People’s Movement in UK and USA

…nt. Dave’s blog is just one of several hosted on the site “Disability Arts Online,” which is a site well worth checking out to find out what the more artistically talented members of our community are doing. As mentioned at the top of this post, Dave Lupton has posted the Open Letter on his own blog and is titled “Final Solution.” Here is an excerpt: As leaders of the disabled people’s movement in the UK and the USA, we are extremely concerned abo…

Blog Bonanza: Montana and Assisted Suicide

…ust one million people live in this huge territory, which is nearly one-and-a-half times the size of the British Isles. But the implications of the outcome of this case, of course, do not end with Montana. If successful, which both sides admit looks likely, the plea for a right to a death with dignity will make the restrictions contained in the Oregon, Washington and the proposed British legislation – that the recipient of a physician-assisted sui…

Arizona Daily Star Romanticizes the Suicide of a Disabled Woman in a “Tribute”

…her spirit?” In other words, Shari Kelly’s life, unlike most, was a second-by-second act of heroism. When she could no longer be the hero, she did the understandable and “compassionate” thing. But here’s a little more info: Kelly spent the first nine months of her life in a children’s hospital ward in Brooklyn, N.Y. An orthopedic deformity required multiple surgeries that left her with clubbed feet, fused ankle bones and the need for leg braces w…