…rights perspective on topics related to assisted suicide, euthanasia, medical ethics, third party decisions to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment and homicides of persons with disabilities. There were over 51,611 views of the website during the reporting year, and NDY posted 143 Facebook entries and 240 tweets. NDY created two video blogs on NDY topics, and a number of presentations were recorded on Zoom and made available. NDY wrote two…
…clear when I got to the last paragraph, which reads as a gratuitous jab at California disability rights activists who have been very helpful in fighting legalization efforts in that state. Here is the closing paragraph from Shapiro’s suicide promotion piece: There is a great irony in all of this. Those who are not incapacitated are physically able to commit suicide, and need no assistance. Those who require, but are routinely denied, that assistan…
…that we are extremely concerned that assisted suicide, sometimes euphemistically called “aid in dying,” could be legalized in Montana. It is estimated that there are 21,265 cases of elder abuse annually in Montana, reported and unreported (http://web.archive.org/web/20101021101332/http://www.eadaily.com/15/elder-abuse-statistics/). Statistically, 90 percent of elder abusers are a family member or trusted other. Similarly, people with disabilities…
…he neck down. Here are some of the comments from Gold and Coleman: Statistically, spinal-cord patients are more likely to be young and male — hurt in sports, auto accidents or other trauma. Unlike older patients, who may come to be disabled more gradually, they are suddenly forced to imagine a life with grave limitations. And, most likely, they’ve internalized stereotypes and negative attitudes about disability, said Diane Coleman, president of th…
…but less. Mr. Liston, an organizer for a national disability-rights group called Not Dead Yet, said he envisioned people like himself being nudged toward life-ending choices by their doctors or families, out of compassion or perhaps convenience. “People with disabilities don’t get to live with dignity, let alone die with dignity,” he said. Other opponents of a “right to die well,” as some are calling the argument made by Mr. Baxter and the group…
