…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 Haller at Media dis&dat ha…
…2001 in New Mobility. Finally, Mouth Magazine has a story by Barb Knowlen online that touches on concerns related to Not Dead Yet. The story talks about the fears that many disabled people have about doctors – who don’t value them, who won’t listen to them, and are too ignorant and arrogant to realize they could kill some of us through this combination of factors. In her case, it resulted in a very scary brush with a potentially lethal set of avo…
…out the “right to die”, it’s about: Suicide how-to instructions and videos online; Exit Guides who assist old, ill and disabled people to die; Exit Guides who hold your arms down so you won’t “accidentally” remove the plastic “Exit Bag” after the gas that will kill you starts flowing.The World Federation of Right To Die Societies is not really about the “right to die”, it’s about: Doctors who euthanized deaf twins in Belgium who feared losing thei…
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll last year, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We disabled people have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre the notion that personal dignity is somehow lost through physical depend…
…g and exactly what issues were covered. Earlier today, disabilityscoop, an online publication that describes itself as the “premiere source of developmental disability news,” published an article on the same meeting. As the title of the article indicates (Advocates Call for End to Transplant Discrimination), the article focuses on the issue of the denial of transplant consideration to people with disabilities, based solely on their disability. The…
