…edless to say, this made everything worse. She soon accepted a job with a cruise ship line and sailed away. True story — happened in New Jersey. Is suicide still against the law there? More recently, another friend was searching for a way out. He was not in physical pain. He was not terminally ill. His problem was that he was in a nursing home and the conditions there were not good. What he needed was a Health Care Advocate — someone to advocate f…
…lliative care in Quebec’s Bill. Read the rest of the blog entry here. Just today – August 16th (I said these were recent, didn’t I?) Adrian has posted a review of Tom Koch‘s recently published book, “Thieves of Medicine: When Bioethics Stole Medicine.” (Confession – for reasons that escape me, we haven’t ordered a copy of Tom Koch’s book yet. That will be rectified this weekend. Tom Koch is a friend and supporter of Not Dead Yet and we have great…
…ith a history of depression and suicide attempts have received the lethal drugs. Burden: Financial and emotional pressures can also make people choose death. Unnecessary: Everyone already has the legal right to refuse treatment and get full palliative care, including, if dying in pain, pain-relieving palliative sedation. No true safeguards: Where assisted suicide is legal, the safeguards are hollow, with no enforcement or investigation authority….
…ferring money to providers than giving care to the public. In addition the World Socialist Web Site featured an essay by Kate Randall titled “The voice of the ruling class.” Randall makes some excellent points, although NDY doesn’t think Nazi analogies – even careful ones like the brief one in this essay – are very useful. We’d also disagree with the characterization of Obama’s health care reform efforts as “an unprecedented attack on health care…
…fered from Lou Gehrig’s disease moved into her home, named her his estate trustee, deeded his home to a trust, and then died by physician-assisted suicide.” Two days after Thomas Middleton died, Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited the sale money into one of her own accounts. This story came to light, not through any assisted suicide program safeguards, but through suspicious real estate transactions. Americans place tremendous valu…
