Actor/Activist Martin Sheen Voices Opposition to Assisted Suicide in Washington State
…ENTITLED TO DIGNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: A STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION TO HONORING DR. JACK KEVORKIAN” is still viewable online….
…ENTITLED TO DIGNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: A STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION TO HONORING DR. JACK KEVORKIAN” is still viewable online….
If it’s still available online, I really do hope to get to transcribing the Radio Netherlands interview. I’m a slow typist whose working memory is limited when I’m doing something like typing, so transcription is a long and slow process of listening, remembering and typing five words, rewinding, hit “play” and repeat the process ad infinitum. As anyone reading the description above might gather, it doesn’t take much to distract me from doing tran…
Most of the time when I find something online that’s relevant to the NDY blog, I pull out an excerpt and point people back to the original article. First, because it’s written by Mike Ervin, who has written pieces featured in our humor section. This piece isn’t exactly humor, but it’s something that fits with some concerns I and others have had for quite awhile – those of us who have significant doubts about what we should do about that “organ do…
…sive services of the organization Dignitas. The short article, unavailable online, summarizes the situation concisely and also includes my own quotes on the issue. This is from the February 2009 issue of New Mobility, page 14: Assisted Suicide Aired on Television Britain’s Sky Real Lives broadcast station took reality TV to new lows by airing “Right to Die: The Suicide Tourist,” the assisted suicide of Craig Ewert, from England. The wife of the re…
…ds mercy killing over false cancer diagnosis Published: 6 Feb 09 19:40 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090206-17287.html A Bochum man who thought he was terminally ill with cancer convinced a friend to stab him to death but authorities later tragically confirmed he was not sick at all, according to daily Bild. Police discovered the body of the man, identified as 40-year-old Achim K., in his apartment at his parents’ house on Thursday…