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…available at http://www.healthline.com/health-news/senior-elder-abuse-more-common-than-you-think-012714 25 Hendin and K. Goley, Physician-Assisted Suide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1613 (2008) 18 Hendin and Gerald Klerman, Phvsician-Assisted Suicide: The Dangers of Legalization, 150 Am. J. of Psych. 143 (Jan.1993) 20 Brendan D. Kelly et al., Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Psychiatry: A Pandora’s Box, 181 British J….
…and euthanasia as deadly forms of discrimination. ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom. For more information on our organizations, visit www.adapt.org and www.notdeadyet.org. If you have received this press release in electronic format the ad itself…
…e issues surrounding assisted suicide are simple, with the only objections coming from far-right Christian conservatives. A quick note – one item I shared with the editors was a document from 2005 that shows the Oregon assisted suicide law has no real provision for investigation of any incidents of assisted suicide that might have violated the law. Here’s a link to the document, with its contents included under the link: Oregon Dept. of Human Serv…
…rminally ill. They were disabled and depressed. In Oregon, the reported end-of-life concerns are all about existential distress regarding disability. People ashamed about depending on others, humiliated by feeling like an undignified burden, or who are traumatized by incontinence get only suicide completion services. In this state, suicide prevention organizations tacitly support assisted suicide by not taking a position against it. The State’s su…
