…en as worthless. The National Council on Independent Living is the longest-running national cross-disability, grassroots organization run by and for people with disabilities. Founded in 1982, NCIL represents thousands of organizations and individuals including: Centers for Independent Living (CILs), Statewide Independent Living Councils (SILCs), individuals with disabilities, and other organizations that advocate for the human and civil rights of…
…tion of assisted suicide include: American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL), Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), Boston Center for Independent Living, Disability Policy Consortium, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Justice For All (JFA), MetroWest Center for Independent Living, National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), National Spinal Cord Injury…
…Suicidology (April 19, 2018) Thirty Years of Holding It Is Long Enough (February 13, 2018) Disability Rights Groups Applaud NY Court of Appeals Assisted Suicide Ruling (September 7, 2017) Disability Advocates Protest Senate Leader Over Cuts to Medicaid (June 22, 2017) Disability Activists Rally Against Assisted Suicide At NY Court of Appeals (May 30, 2017) MEDIA ADVISORY: Assisted Suicide To Be Argued in New York Court of Appeals (May 29, 2017) ND…
…, has caught the headlines as people with chronic diseases from around the world travel to Switzerland to ask for its help in committing suicide. Armitage must have been asleep when the news came out that Switzerland’s Supreme Court gave the “thumbs up” to assisting the suicides of some people with psychiatric labels. We should all have an open and honest debate about these issues. But sometimes it’s hard to see how there’s a hope of having one wh…
…suicide? Derek Humphrey, the founder of the Hemlock Society – better known today as Compassion and Choices – aptly stated “Surveys have consistently found that most people would rather continue living at home rather than in a nursing home. What has not been known until recently, however, is that the aversion to ‘such a facility is so strong that 30% of those surveyed said they would rather die than live permanently in a nursing home.’” Well, on th…
