…ut making it easier for physicians to help New Yorkers die (New York Daily News, 10/22/19) Ruthie Poole: Should Mass. pass legislation to allow physician-assisted suicide? NO (Second article, Boston Globe, 07/12/19) Terri Hancharick: Commentary: Assisted suicide legislation endangers those with disabilities (Delaware State News, 05/14/19) Mike Reynolds: I can’t believe I’m still fighting against assisted suicide (Bangor Daily News, 04/09/19) Lisa…
…anroth claimed – year after year – that Kevorkian had “less than a year to live” in his efforts to win an early release for his client. This was laid out and confirmed in an Associated Press story that appeared on December 14th of last year (link is no longer operational): Some object to Kevorkian’s upcoming release from prison 12/14/2006, 5:34 p.m. ET By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press (excerpt) Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights…
…se Google Drive to send the videos in .mov or .mp4 format. Please send all videos to: liveonprojectcdr@gmail.com *** The Canadian Project is well underway already, led by Catherine Frazee and others. As reported in New Mobility, Project Value Asserts Disability Is Not Worse Than Death: A group of Canadians are out to testify that there’s so much more to life with a disability than one of “suffering that could last decades,” as recent media coverag…
…ed. Van Voorhis had minor physical complaints, but had a long history of struggles with psychological and emotional issues. From the article: Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced a few minutes ago that investigators from his office have busted four people on murder charges in the 2005 “assisted suicide” death of a seriously mentally ill Phoenix woman. New Times broke the news of this unusual and tragic case in 2007 in an extensive piec…
Today, March 24th, the U.S. News & World Report site published an article titled “Is There a Right to Die?” The article focuses mainly on the current battle around assisted suicide legislation in Connecticut. The most remarkable aspect of this article is that about half of it is devoted to quotes from disability activists, who are the only opponents to legalized assisted suicide quoted in the article. Marilyn Golden from DREDF is quoted as are Di…
