…am very sure there are others I’ve forgotten, overlooked, or not seen yet.: Paula C. Durbin-Westby writes “No Anesthesia for Disabled Woman – Fletcher-Allen Health Care (FAHC)” Bill Peace writes his 500th post! (Yes, thoughts on Amanda Baggs, among other things) Bill Peace with his Latest, “Fear Exists for a Good Reason“…
…tor’s black bag. We expand the role of a doctor from provider of healthcare, be it curative, rehabilitative or palliative, to agent of death. Blumberg highlighted the experience of NDY Board member Bill Peace: In a searing piece for Hastings Center Reports, anthropology professor William J. Peace, who has paralysis, describes how a hospitalist, who knew nothing about him, gave him the choice to forgo antibiotics rather than endure the rigors, unce…
…om moving forward. Thank you for your consideration. Sources: 1 William J. Peace, “Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood” http://infiniteability.yolasite.com/resources/Hastings%20report_Peace.pdf 2 John Norton, “Affidavit in Opposition to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia” http://www.massagainstassistedsuicide.org/2012/09/john-norton-cautionary-tale.html 3 Carol J. Gill, PhD, “Suicide Intervention for People with Disabilities: A Lesson in Inequality”…
…Fully accessible venue. Masks required. — * Flyer: PRESCRIPTION FOR WHOSE PEACE OF MIND? Medical Assisted Suicide is fraught with peril for the most vulnerable among us- the elderly, disabled, and poor, who are already viewed by the medical system and the insurance companies as too costly to treat and thus expendable. There are no imaginable “safeguards” that can change this reality. To legalize this practice would only increase the discriminatio…
…IL) reiterated its position taken last year against assisted suicide. Bill Peace, board member of Not Dead Yet, was signed up ahead of time for the first panel, but got inexplicably passed over. Adding to an oppressive string of inaccessible experiences, Bill got overheated by the hot hearing room air. Only after he insisted was he called to testify. Bill recounted his hellish experience in a hospital of being approached at midnight by a strange d…
