…ities are provided suicide assistance.” The full release is not yet posted online, but came to ADAPT advocates via email. It’s public, so I’m sharing it with you below. ADAPT has long opposed legalization of assisted suicide. Pew researchers also found that people of color tend to oppose it, so there’s every reason to think that we can find common ground on this. But it probably came as a surprise to the Leadership Conference to see it brought up…
…osted your letter on our website. We are gratified that you have suspended online sales of these two documents, pending the results of our efforts, but we’re disappointed that you haven’t issued a “recall” of the documents. We understand that you consider the documents to be fine if used as intended, but we consider some of the information to be factually incorrect no matter how the documents are used. We have also been made aware of a “Dear Colle…
[Editor’s note: For the PRWeb online version of this release in pdf format, go here.] On Friday, it became official: for the second consecutive year, the Connecticut legislature rejected assisted suicide legislation. Disability advocates celebrated as the state’s Public Health Committee, like the Massachusetts Joint Committee On Public Health a week earlier, let its assisted suicide bill die in committee. Earlier this spring, New Hampshire overwh…
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll last year, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We disabled people have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre the notion that personal dignity is somehow lost through physical depend…
…s experience with MOLST (the Massachusetts version of POLST) in his recent online response to a survey by the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Approaching Death. So Shute contacted John when she was preparing her article for NPR’s Thanksgiving edition. Here’s how she conveyed John’s concern: Some members of the disability community have questioned whether POLST is being too broadly applied. Rather than give people more control over end-of-life…
