Not Dead Yet’s Op Ed articles

…y disability advocates worry about 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 (Ba…

AMICUS BRIEF OF DISABILITY RIGHTS AMICI: NOT DEAD YET, ADAPT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK, DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND THE UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION

…that might cause someone to reconsider their desire to die. As a doctor at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has observed, assisted suicide “runs the risk of further devaluing the lives of terminally ill patients and may provide the excuse for society to abrogate its responsibility for their care.” [12] The question how to address the psychological and social needs that underlie the desire to die, however, is typically lost in a si…

Statement of Not Dead Yet (USA) to Canadian Panel on Carter Case Decision

…hen Drake, M.S., Research Analyst Not Dead Yet 497 State Street Rochester, New York 14608 USA October 14, 2015 Executive Summary Not Dead Yet is a national, grassroots disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia as deadly forms of discrimination against old, ill and disabled people. Not Dead Yet helps organize and articulate opposition to these practices in the United States based on secular social justic…

Press Releases

…of Appeals (May 30, 2017) MEDIA ADVISORY: Assisted Suicide To Be Argued in New York Court of Appeals (May 29, 2017) NDLA Press Release: Over 200 Disability Organizations Send Letter Opposing Congressional Health Cuts (March 10, 2017) (NDLA Site Version) Eleven Disability Organizations File Friend of the Court Brief in Appeal of New York Assisted Suicide Case (February 16, 2017) Disability Rights Organizations Statement Opposing Assisted Suicide La…

Eleven Disability Groups File Brief in New York Assisted Suicide Case

January 6, 2016Our News & Commentary BlogDiane Coleman

…nal and New York State Disability Groups File Friend of the Court Brief in New York Assisted Suicide Case On January 6, Not Dead Yet and ten other national and New York state disability rights organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the New York Appellate Division in support of a lower court ruling dismissing a case seeking to legalize physician assisted suicide. Joining in the Not Dead Yet brief are ADAPT, the Autistic Self Advoca…