…aimed at reversing that narrative through a series of short, but powerful videos that highlight the experiences of people who may have struggled to accept their disability at first, but have now built a life worth living with their disability and not just in spite of it. In addition to the videos telling the stories of disabled lives well lived, Live On offers a variety of resources for disabled people who may be struggling with depression and/or…
…the void has given me hope on darker days. Please continue to share these videos far and wide, talk to your people about disability justice, and follow Not Dead Yet on social media to stay up to date on how you can get involved with advocating around the crucial issue of assisted suicide. I would really love to stay connected with y’all as I move onto the next big thing. You can find me on Instagram and Threads @djenderbender, and that’s spelt D-…
…aplan had asked simply, “What do we know about suicide?” rather than “You just can’t know what leads people to suicide,” we might actually have given ourselves space to consider how institutions of all kinds (press, bioethics, pediatrics, parenthood, the law) let something crucial escape their deliberative machines. And perhaps we would be able to step outside the tidy institutional structure of the dominant model of bioethics, whose procedures ri…
…t exist as our opponents. You can’t blame it on a “liberal press” either – Fox News was as guilty as anyone else in terms of pretending we didn’t exist. The outcome of that exclusion, of course, is harmful to the issue this conference is supposed to address. The American public remembers the Schiavo struggle as a chapter in the “culture wars.” And to the extent that we’re remembered at all, there’s a vague notion that we were “tools” of the religi…
…helps young people become volunteers. She is Vice-Chairman of the Laureus World Sport Academy and a trustee of the Sport for Good Foundation. *** On 23 March 2010, Grey-Thompson was created a Life Peer on the recommendation of the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC). Despite previously suggesting a desire for a title with a Welsh connection,[8] her title was conferred as Baroness Grey-Thompson, of Eaglescliffe in the County of Durham o…
