…more-or-less textbook explanation about what it was and how it was unethical in “almost” all cases. While listening, I had one of those rare flashes of perverse inspiration and gave my own response: “Involuntary euthanasia,” I explained, was legal in many states and practiced pretty regularly in some of them. We just didn’t use that particular term – we usually refer to it as the “death penalty” – using painless lethal injections to put people to…
…bility. Beyond my personal feelings, I think the Ashley treatment is critically important because two extreme views exist that have become entrenched. The doctors in Seattle who initiated the Ashley treatment, and its proponents, firmly believe they have helped one child and potentially many more. In contrast, many people with disabilities, like me, consider the Ashley treatment morally and ethically unacceptable. Given these polar opposite perspe…
…d like this in his life! He said he spent hours with her, reading her journal aloud trying to make some kind of sense of it all! He couldn’t leave! He said it was so devastating to see her all hooked up to those tanks! Her adoptive Aunt and I went to her apartment the following day. Her body was gone, but everything else was still there! The tanks, tubing, the plastic she covered her head with, the video rocker she sat in, empty TV dinner trays, G…
…g practices. Bottom line: there are non-trivial conflicts between traditional values espoused in the nursing profession and organ harvesting practices to make a number of practitioners a little queasy: Studies indicate that although nurses generally report positive attitudes toward the idea of donation, their unwillingness to donate their own organs or the organs of their family members suggests either some uncertainty or other barriers to donatio…
…of which is included as an article in today’s edition of BeyondChron – the Alternative San Francisco online daily. Bess, at The Right to Design, shares a long remembrance of Paul. CDCAN – California Disability Community Action Network issued a short press release. Ben Mattlin shares some thoughts and dedicates part 14 of “Miracle Boy” to Paul Longmore. Martina has written “Memorium” – a poem for Paul Longmore on the Breaks in the Verse blog. Beth…
