…Connecticut residents. [1] Early in the crisis, members of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics wrote chillingly that “typical medical options may soon not be available to everyone.” Yet, as concerned health care providers said, “Guidelines that evaluate patients by age or ‘comorbid conditions [that] impact survival’ or ‘underlying medical diseases that may hinder recovery’ implicitly rely on value judgments about these patients’ qualit…
…f their dignity and human rights in a “detention camp” which can hardly be called a place of living. How can such a place be the origin of the inclusive society? This false way of demonstrating the will for the inclusive society is not only an insult to people with disability in Japan, but also leads to international recognition of Japan as a state which violates human rights, as the UN Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRP…
…that in about half of those cases, there is no independent witness, no medical provider at the death, and in those cases we can’t actually know if the drug was self-administered or if the person consented at the time of death. Although- Emma Wilson: So, Diane, you have a lot of questions about what mindset the patient is in, what support they’re receiving, I mean George, that’s something again that comes up, people say why help terminally ill peop…
…led to see them die,” said Stephen Drake of the group Not Dead Yet. As I recall, I made this statement in reaction to what it would mean if the courts decided to leave FEN alone – leave them to their “assisting” the suicides of old, ill and disabled people (assistance might include things such as helping to get the “client” over their ambivalence, holding their hands down, and cleaning up the area after the person dies to hide the fact that the de…
…whether disabled or not. Drawing on those same principles, we support medical marijuana. We chose our name Second Thoughts because we find that many people, once they delve below the surface appeal of assisted suicide, have “second thoughts” and oppose it. In Massachusetts a month before the election, 68% of voters supported the ballot question. But just as closer looks in Massachusetts – and more recently in New Hampshire and New Jersey – led to…
