NDY board member Bill Peace has been writing more on his blog Bad Cripple. Two of his recent posts last 2 touch directly on NDY concerns. In You Can’t do That, he describes the ways in which individuals and society focus hard on what he “can’t” do: The instant negativity attached to disability is raised to a higher level when serious, life threatening illness is at issue. Cancer is bad. All illness is bad. Terminal illness is the worst–a tragedy….
…ile the current rules did not effectively protect Carrie Ann Lucas or Bill Peace, gutting those rules would only rob people with disabilities and others of a legal “leg to stand on” and make matters worse. Thanks to DREDF for providing electronic filing information and a template to help advocates file public comments on the proposed rule change, which are due by 11:59 pm today (August 13). Here is NDY’s comment letter. August 13, 2019 Roger Sever…
…Plaintiff Aja Riggs had only a “fear” her cancer would return and wanted “peace of mind” if it would return. D.C. Findings ¶¶ 12-13. [2] See 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 expressing…
…stop it from 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…
…reversible. Suicide is not. I look forward to testifying against H 1998.” William Peace, the Jeanette K Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Syracuse University, is driving from New York to talk about the time the doctor in a hospital tried to convince him to choose death over treating a dangerous infection. “I was not in any way terminally ill. Yet a physician I had never met deemed my life not worth living. Disability in this physician’s…
