Hopefully, a lot of regular readers have become familiar with Bill Peace’s Bad Cripple Blog. I think I’ve excerpted, reacted to or just plain pointed to his blog more than anyone else’s – check out this link for the NDY posts in which he’s been featured in some way. Bill’s blog went silent for almost two weeks, which is unusual. On Wednesday, he announced that he’s in the hospital with a major health problem – a pressure sore he describes as a “h…
…gotsoakedbutwegottotheaccessibleentranceto30Rockbefore8:00. JulieMaury,BillPeace,HopeDerogatisandAriNe’eman, all people with disabilities and disability rights advocates,werealreadythere.We had each been interviewed by producers prior to being invited to appear on the show. WeweredirectedtoalargeelevatortothesixthfloorwhereweallshowedourIDsandweregivenourtickets.Wewerereceivedverycordially,withbigbrightsmiles,bytheproductionstaffwhoalllookedlikehi…
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, 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…
…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…
