New Research on Nurses Who Kill Repeatedly: They’re Serial Killers, Not Agents of Mercy

April 22, 2008media coverage, medical killings, Our News & Commentary Blog, research, serial killersStephen Drake

…ggests that’s a very poor practice. Field’s findings resonate with the comments of other professionals who have studied this phenomenon. You’ll find them quoted in this 2003 article from USA Today I linked in an earlier entry. I’m happy to say that Field’s thesis is available online. A full abstact and links to pdf files of his thesis are available at the University of Adelaide Research and Scholarship Digital Library. I’ll find this handy the nex…

Actor/Activist Martin Sheen Voices Opposition to Assisted Suicide in Washington State

October 1, 2008advocacy, assisted suicide, Kevorkian, Our News & Commentary Blog, Washington stateStephen Drake

…ENTITLED TO DIGNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: A STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION TO HONORING DR. JACK KEVORKIAN” is still viewable online….

Real life keeps getting in the way of good intentions

November 26, 2008excuses, Our News & Commentary BlogStephen Drake

If it’s still available online, I really do hope to get to transcribing the Radio Netherlands interview. I’m a slow typist whose working memory is limited when I’m doing something like typing, so transcription is a long and slow process of listening, remembering and typing five words, rewinding, hit “play” and repeat the process ad infinitum. As anyone reading the description above might gather, it doesn’t take much to distract me from doing tran…

Mike Ervin: Ruben Navarro and Rethinking Donation of My Organs

January 27, 2009crime and punishment, mike ervin, NSCIA, organ donation, Our News & Commentary Blog, Ruben NavarroStephen Drake

Most of the time when I find something online that’s relevant to the NDY blog, I pull out an excerpt and point people back to the original article. First, because it’s written by Mike Ervin, who has written pieces featured in our humor section. This piece isn’t exactly humor, but it’s something that fits with some concerns I and others have had for quite awhile – those of us who have significant doubts about what we should do about that “organ do…

New Mobility: NDY quoted in story on U.K. Airing of Ewert Suicide

February 3, 2009assisted suicide, media coverage, New Mobility, Our News & Commentary Blog, Switzerland, United KingdomStephen Drake

…sive services of the organization Dignitas. The short article, unavailable online, summarizes the situation concisely and also includes my own quotes on the issue. This is from the February 2009 issue of New Mobility, page 14: Assisted Suicide Aired on Television Britain’s Sky Real Lives broadcast station took reality TV to new lows by airing “Right to Die: The Suicide Tourist,” the assisted suicide of Craig Ewert, from England. The wife of the re…