A Disability Perspective on the Issue of Physician Assisted Suicide – Disability and Health Journal

…he press release being issued before the journal in question was available online. I’ve mentioned before that I love it when people save me time and work when it comes to writing. Writer and editor Michael Cook has just published a summary of the contents of the journal issue on Mercatornet.com – along with some interesting commentary – in “Is Death Better than Disability?“: When assisted suicide is legalised most of the people who will die are di…

HBO Is Making Sure We Don’t Know Jack About Jack Kevorkian

…resentations as well. One of the more detailed reviews appears in Obit, an online publication dealing with matters related to “life, death, transition.” In the current edition, Julia M. Klein, in her review A Killing, or a Mercy?, shares a scene from the film that allegedly explains Kevorkian’s motivation for facilitating the suicides of so many people: There are no flashbacks showing the doctor, who eventually claimed to have assisted 130 suicide…

The “Right to Die” Expands Into New Territory

…uarantee they’re nothing like what you would expect. On May 10th, Delaware Online featured a story by reporter Sean O’Sullivan titled “Lawyers spar over killer’s right to die.” On May 12th, WAFB.com in Louisiana featured a story by reporter Jim Shannon titled “Right to die bill passes through House committee.” The stories both deal with the death penalty. Personally, I think that “right to be executed” would be a more accurate term for the stories…

Three recommended reads: Bill Peace on “Ashley and Me,” L Syd M Johnson critque of Jacob Appel on PVS and April Michelle Herndon on the “Magic Pill” Question

…token event/seminar/workshop. Nevertheless, I go back periodically to the online Bioethics Forum, because I occasionally find articles on that section of the website that are relevant to NDY and/or disability rights. Right now, the Bioethics Forum is featuring three articles that all have relevance to NDY’s mission and/or to disability rights – even though only one of the articles is written by a disability rights activist. Going from the oldest…