BBC Radio World Have Your Say Transcript 11/3/14 Emma Wilson: Now the debate about assisted suicide, or the right to die is not new, but the death of a 29 year old woman, Brittany Maynard, who decided to take lethal drugs to end her life in the US after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, has revived that difficult debate, now Brittany just before she died on Saturday she posted a video on You Tube, it has been watched over 10 million tim…
…h of Peter Smedley at a Swiss assisted suicide clinic. It was aired on the BBC. But these were taped, which I guess lacks the “thrill” of viewing such a thing live. But I think the conversation about the “new ground” being broken is a less important issue than another groundbreaking issue. Alki David is paying Nikolai Ivanisovich and his family for the right of live-streaming his suicide – enough so that Mr. Ivanisovich says his family “will be ab…
…rvation and dehydration; “lose a child” is not at all accurate. He did not run away at the mall. No one kidnapped him at night. He spent all 23 days in his mother’s apartment, with his parents, and a reporter documenting the entire ordeal. Dylan’s parents, Kerri Bruning and Dave Walborn perceived his bad days outnumbered the good and made the decision to withdraw food. Ministers, grandparents and others came to the apartment throughout those 23 da…
…a few days ago, I heard someone from a pro life campaign group telling ITV news, “Killing people is illegal.” It seems the world needs reminding of these simple things. So, for the sake of clarity: I’m Disability Bitch, and I do hate the world and everything in it, but I don’t want to die anytime soon. It’s no surprise my No-Legged mate thinks I might want to glide off this mortal coil sooner rather than later. The thing is, I don’t. I quite like…
…g resistance after initial success was due to our role as agents of deconstruction. Deconstruction serves our interests as a community, since the current paradigm doesn’t allow for our part in the debates over assisted suicide and euthanasia at all – unless it’s an individual disabled person asking to be killed. What do you think the word collaboration should mean? You talk about collaboration as an overlap of concerns. But you hint that this coll…
