…Comments on Futility by Diane Coleman on Behalf of Not Dead Yet Before the National Council on Disability Public Comments to the National Council on Disability PushBlack Podcast: “The Erasure of Black Disabled Voices with Anita Cameron” Recommendations of Two Additional Members of the Institute of Medicine’s Transforming End of Life Care Committee REJECT HEALTH POLICIES THAT DISCRIMINATE Second Thoughts Connecticut Training: The Dangers of Assiste…
…h was followed by a protest by disability activists in Chicago, covered in USA Today, the London Telegraph, and by Michael Miner of the Chicago Reader. After that protest, op-eds and essays started appearing in newspapers across the country, by disability activists, advocates and scholars. Virtually all took exception to the stereotypes and really primitive plot devices that all led up the killing of a newly-disabled woman, at her own request. It…
…sted suicide later that very month. Middleton had named Sawyer his estate trustee and put his home in her trust. Two days after Thomas Middleton died, Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited $90,000 into her own account. It took a federal investigation into real estate fraud to expose this abuse. Sawyer was indicted for first-degree criminal mistreatment and first-degree aggravated theft, partly over criminal mistreatment of Thomas Middl…
…Not Dead Yet Diane Coleman President & CEO Paralyzed Veterans of America Susan Prokop National Advocacy Director Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Tony Coelho Chairman Patients’ Rights Action Fund (PRAF) Matt Vallière Executive Director Patients Rights Council Rita L. Marker, JD Executive Director Physicians for Compassionate Care Education Foundation Dr. Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr., MD President Salvador E. Alvarez Institute for Non-Violenc…
…ly only for those with “terminal” conditions, many of us would not be here today. I might not be here today, and I’m grateful that assisted suicide was not legal back then, and I’m committed to keeping it that way. This is an important reason why the National Council on Independent Living opposes the legalization of assisted suicide. NCIL is a leader in the disability rights movement, our political struggle for equal rights. And, among other thing…
