UK: Poll shows disabled people’s fear over assisted suicide

May 10, 2011assisted suicide, disabled people, Our News & Commentary Blog, stakeholders, survey, United KingdomStephen Drake

…ange in the law could increase pressure on them to end their life. You can download a pdf copy of the survey here. Edit to add: from tigrlily AKA Amy Hasbrouck: On the Scope site, the presentation of the link to the press release gives the most important figure which is not in the press release, that 70% of PWDs surveyed think a law legalizing assisted suicide would put pressure on people with disabilities to end their lives. That should be the le…

Last Day to Submit Input to IOM Committee on Approaching Death – Personal Story

November 1, 2013dredf, Institute of Medicine, medical discrimination, Our News & Commentary Blog, public commentDiane Coleman

…ant forms of discrimination are also common. . . . *** I then referred the Committee to Not Dead Yet’s public comments on the nondiscrimination regulations under the Affordable Care Act, and pointed to the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) comments and other health care resources. Assisted suicide advocates have also promoted their political agenda to the Committee, so I finished by pointing them to the disability rights opposit…

Council of Canadians with Disabilities Media Advisory – Suicide Celebration Instead of Suicide Prevention

April 25, 2013alex schadenberg, Amy Hasbrouck, assisted suicide, Canada, Council of Canadians with Disabilities, dignitas, euthanasia prevention coalition, media, media bias, Our News & Commentary Blog, press release, suicide, suicide prevention, SwitzerlandStephen Drake

…(CCD) Amy Hasbrouck with John Kelly Sue Griffiths of Winnipeg, MB is the latest person to publicize her desire for assisted suicide, and to have her efforts celebrated by the press. Last week, her plea for parliament to re-open the assisted suicide question was widely reported as she prepared to go to Dignitas, a clinic in Switzerland that helps people kill themselves. Ms. Griffiths has Multiple Systems Atrophy, a degenerative neurological conditi…

Written Testimony of Daniese McMullin-Powell, Delaware NDY, Opposing HB 150

Daniese McMullin-Powell, imbest222@aol.com Testimony Against HB 150 Statement to the House Health & Human Development Committee Re: House Bill 150 – An Act Relating to Death With Dignity Wednesday, June 3, 2015 OPPOSE My name is Daniese McMullin-Powell, I am testifying on behalf of Not Dead Yet, the national disability rights group that has long opposed euthanasia and assisted suicide. Our opposition is based in universal principles of social…

John Kelly: Assisted Suicide Laws and Bills “Riddled with Falsehoods”

April 7, 2016aid in dying, assisted suicide, elder abuse, john kelly, New Hampshire, Our News & Commentary Blog, Second Thoughts, Testimonyaid in dying, assisted suicide, John Kelly, New Hampshire, TestimonyDiane Coleman

…le who “graduate” from hospice each year. … Assisted suicide laws turn the best outcome under hospice – proving you weren’t terminal after all – into the worst possible end for people who might live months, years, or decades longer, but are instead persuaded (or coerced) under threat of agonizing death to commit suicide. There are so many examples of people outliving terminal prognoses, from Ted Kennedy living a year longer than predicted to John…