…received “some pretty intense criticism.” One critic is Professor Thaddeus Pope, who wrote about the Oklahoma law in a piece entitled “Defending Disability Discrimination.” Pope gave an example of an institutionalized person with mental illness who allegedly would not be able to handle his medications and other transplant care requirements to be eligible for a transplant. Coleman and other disability advocates challenge these sorts of claims, whic…
…ld under this option if the person is “indifferent.” The ethicist Thaddeus Pope believes that this type of form should be available to cover conditions other than dementia such as strokes and brain injury. These just happen to be two conditions where people due to manual dexterity issues may need help with feeding at least temporarily. Pope is part of a group that has drafted an “Advance Directive for Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking”. Under…
…he best resource I’ve found is the Medical Futility Blog by Thaddeus Mason Pope. Pope disagrees with NDY on a significant number of issues, but he’s an impressive researcher who has posted links to research and news coverage that I’ve found valuable. He also seems to make an honest attempt to be a fair reporter on issues he highlights on his blog, while making his own perspective clear (I do think he falls short of the mark at times, but I would g…
…takes place, 1 – 3 weeks. Promoted by some assisted suicide advocates like Thaddeus Pope for people who want to die but don’t qualify as terminal. One pro-VSED group defines “Living Terminally“ as “when a person lives with a debilitating disease and they depend on 24/7 care for ADLs (Activities of Daily Living), they’ve lost a quality of life that cannot be restored.” VSED as solution. 25 Discriminatory Double Standard Assisted suicide is discrimi…
…rticle about the hearing in the New Jersey Star-Ledger worth checking out. Thaddeus Mason Pope has posted his oral argument, and will write more about his impressions of the proceeding in the future. He opens the post with this: This morning in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a totally packed appellate courtroom was treated to a lively 90 minutes of oral argument on the law and ethics of medical futility. The hearing in Room 103 of the Middlesex County…
