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New Bill Peace-Related Response – ‘Who would want a child like that?’

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There’s an interesting new response to Bill Peace’s essay in the Hastings Center Report in which Bill described a very disturbing late-night visit by a physician while Bill was hospitalized for care and complications relating to a stage IV skin breakdown. An excerpt has been posted as a comment on Bill’s response to invited reactions to his essay. The new response is from Keith Barrington who blogs at Neonatal Research. After describing Bill Peac…

Bill Peace, Stephen Kuusisto and a Little from Me on the Growing Cheerleading Squad for Tomas Young’s Suicide

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…places on the web. Today, he was interviewed on “Democracy Now.” Both Bill Peace and Stephen Kuusisto have written followups, and they’ll give you a little more info and some excellent thoughts and analysis on this death train. First from Bill Peace writes on the misleading reporting on Thomas Young: The Huffington Post published a story yesterday entitled “Thomas Young, Dying Iraq Veteran Pens Last Letter To Bush, Cheney on War’s 10th Anniversary…

Bill Peace and Stephen Kuusisto React to “The Crucifixion of Thomas Young” by Chris Hedges

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…e voluntary withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, allowing Young to die peacefully. Except, of course, Young looks at his death as a suicide (I guess no one told him he should use words like “the feeding tube is a burden”). It’s a reminder that while there are plenty of scenarios in which withdrawal/refusal of treatment is distinct from suicide, there are plenty of other situations in which the distinction isn’t clear at all – especially to the…

Bill Peace in Hastings Center Bioethics Forum: “Euthanasia in Belgium: The Untold Story”

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Bill Peace, who writes the Bad Cripple blog and is one of our new board members at Not Dead Yet, has a new commentary out in the Bioethics Forum at the Hastings Center website. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Belgian twins, Eddie and Marc Verbessem, were euthanized by lethal injection at Brussels University Hospital in Jette in December. The Verbessem brothers, deaf since birth, were cobblers by trade who lived and worked together their entir…

YouTube: EZ Breezy Assisted Suicide w/ Bill Peace (and Tipsy Tullivan)

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2010 was a horrible year for friend and NDY board member Bill Peace. Here’s a summary from a post back in 2012: Back in 2010, our friend, colleague and ally Bill Peace, experienced a long, expensive health crisis when he experienced a stage IV skin breakdown – with a long treatment process that was physically and emotionally grueling by his own accounts. While Bill was hospitalized – and at one of his lowest points healthwise – he was subjected t…