…places on the web. Today, he was interviewed on “Democracy Now.” Both Bill Peace and Stephen Kuusisto have written followups, and they’ll give you a little more info and some excellent thoughts and analysis on this death train. First from Bill Peace writes on the misleading reporting on Thomas Young: The Huffington Post published a story yesterday entitled “Thomas Young, Dying Iraq Veteran Pens Last Letter To Bush, Cheney on War’s 10th Anniversary…
…Internal Medicine, 154(18):2039-47 (Sept. 26, 1994)………………………………………….. 4 William Breitbart et al., Depression, Hopelessness and Desire for Hastened Death in Terminally Ill Patients with Cancer, 284 JAMA 2907 (Dec. 13, 2000)……………………………………………………………………………… 20 18 William Breitbart, MD et al, Interest In Physician-Assisted Suicide Among Ambulatory HIV-Infected Patients, Am. J. Psychiatry 153 (1996) 4 Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, Or…
…Plaintiff Aja Riggs had only a “fear” her cancer would return and wanted “peace of mind” if it would return. District Court Findings ¶¶ 12-13. [2] William Breitbart, MD et al, Interest In Physician-Assisted Suicide Among Ambulatory HIV-Infected Patients, Am. J. Psychiatry 153, 238-242 (1996). See also Robert Pear, A Hard Charging Doctor on Obama’s Team, N.Y. Times, April 18, 2009, at A14 (noting that pain is “a common stereotype of patients expre…
…posted this on Facebook, a couple of people who participated in the protest were really floored. One person remembered it as being to wet and cold that day to move, since the protest they engaged in wasn’t a violent one. Bill Peace has written a long post titled “Ten Years of Peter Singer.” Gary Presley also shares some of his own thoughts in “Congratulating Peter Singer.” Same recommendation as always. Go read what they have to say. –Stephen Drak…
…ge consisting of applause and pitying pseudo-sentimentality. Finally, Bill Peace has managed to struggle through his own disgust and write down his own reactions on his Bad Cripple blog. Here is the first paragraph of his blog entry titled “The Mainstream Media Discovers Christina Symanski: Perspective Please“: American society loves people with a disability that want to die. These people are heros. These people are lauded as brave. Their stories…
