…Star-Ledger opinions on assisted suicide, pro and con, come with Brittany Maynard’s picture. The Ledger could encourage reader perspective by showing TV star Valerie Harper, decreed “terminally ill” more than a year before Maynard. She recently starred in a play. Psychosocial reasons alone explain three-quarters of Oregon assisted suicides, yet the Ledger on October 6 presents needless pain as the only alternative. But contemporary palliative pra…
…dose? I understand that the media has been flooded with images of Brittany Maynard, who held the lethal drugs in her hand, and appeared to be in full control with a loving family supporting her choice to die in the spacious bedroom we saw on TV that she shared with her husband. But most people who have been reported to use assisted suicide in Oregon do not resemble Ms. Maynard. Most are age 65-84, in a society where one in ten elders are abused ac…
…dose? I understand that the media has been flooded with images of Brittany Maynard, who held the lethal drugs in her hand, and appeared to be in full control with a loving family supporting her choice to die in the bedroom we saw on TV that she shared with her husband. But most people who have been reported to use assisted suicide in Oregon do not resemble Ms. Maynard. Most are age 65-84, in a society where one in ten elders are abused according t…
…verage of a photogenic young, white, class-privileged woman named Brittany Maynard. Mass media would have you believe that opponents are mostly anti-choice, right-wing, religious extremists callous to incredibly heart-wrenching stories like Maynard’s. Yet as a disabled activist working within a framework of radical, intersectional social justice, I am deeply concerned about issues of choice, self-determination, and bodily autonomy. This is precise…
…dose? I understand that the media has been flooded with images of Brittany Maynard, who held the lethal drugs in her hand, and appeared to be in full control with a loving family supporting her choice to die in the bedroom we saw on TV that she shared with her husband. But most people who have been reported to use assisted suicide in Oregon do not resemble Ms. Maynard. Most are age 65-84, in a society where one in ten elders are abused according t…
