…e been more hand wringing over the growing costs of healthcare than we see today. On a worldwide basis, whether paid by private insurance or government programs, there are worried statements that this growth is not sustainable, all coming from professionals who have healthcare themselves. Meanwhile, those who struggle to get the healthcare they need face the threat of more cuts. In the U.S., this led to repeated protests and arrests of disability…
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…
…l significance of her death. This is exactly what you will not find in the news stories that I have read over the last few days. The first newspaper to write about Symanski was the New Jersey Star Ledger. This story was picked up by the UK’s Daily Mail and then the Huffington Post. I expect the news of Symanski’s death will go viral over the weekend and be picked up by hundreds of news outlets. I have no doubt she will be lauded for choosing to di…
…, published on March 25th. The reason it was an eye-opener is that I had already read parts of Fanning’s column – word for word – in a March 19th op-ed by former FEN president Earl Wettstein, published in the Arizona Daily Star. These op-eds or columns run between 500-600 words, so the following passages (and these are just the best examples) represent a significant portion of these “original” works: The media is calling the four people involved a…
…ia. But the coverage so far actually is quite remarkable in that I haven’t read one news account that describes the so-called “strict guidelines” for euthanasia eligibility in the Netherlands accurately. And one of those news sources is actually quite disturbing. First here’s the intro to the news from the Associated Press, titled Dutch group proposes ‘mobile’ teams: AMSTERDAM (AP) — The main Dutch euthanasia advocacy group says it supports creati…
