…it to say, Ouellette gets many things wrong about disability issues in her book – especially when it comes to NDY-related issues. Small wonder – she didn’t reach out to anyone we know of (in checking her preface) in disability advocacy who was actually involved in cases she talks about in her book – Elizabeth Bouvia, Larry McAfee and Terri Schiavo to name a few. I am also guessing that the part of the session relating to “conservative theological…
…m ever feeling clean. Coombs Lee quotes the woman, Penny Schleuter, in her book, Compassion in Dying: Stories of Dignity and Choice. Schleuter said the pain from her cancer could be controlled. But, she added, “I like doing things for myself, and the idea of having somebody take care of me like I am a little 2-month-old baby is just absolutely repulsive. It’s more painful than any of the pain from the cancer.” Coombs Lee said, “everyone who is ter…
…an had no license to practice medicine, and the people he “helped” did not come to him to be diagnosed or treated. They came to be killed and often traveled long distances to secure his services. If they could do that, they could have killed themselves by other means. They came to Kevorkian, then, either to obtain lethal drugs to which they had no access but Kevorkian did, albeit illegally; or they came to die by Kevorkian’s hands rather than thei…
…fuscate rather than clarify conversation; and if we’re really kinder to animals than to humans when it comes to killing them. The audio is available at this link. (player should pop up) The transcript is available here. And please feel free to leave a supportive comment on the main page. Accessing the page and leaving comments in support of the NDY viewpoint will encourage the show to get disability representatives on this and other topics in the…
…and national levels. In 2004, while in Washington, DC, Anita trained to become a CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) member. In 2008, she helped to form the first CERT class consisting of people with disabilities in Rochester, New York. After joining Denver CERT in 2011, Anita became the first visually impaired CERT instructor for the State of Colorado, and in 2013, became a CERT Program Manager for the State. She has assisted in numerous ex…
