…ilitated the process – at least to the extent that they made the couple as comfortable as possible and as free from the more unpleasant sensations of starvation and dehydration as they could manage. That is a lot of help. Similarly, I have concerns that “ongoing bereavement care for the family” means helping everyone in the family feel OK with themselves for their own sanction and support of the couple’s long suicide through starvation and dehydra…
…discrimination in treatment denial that risked death from COVID. (https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-bulletin-3-28-20.pdf?fbclid=IwAR351WokrC2uQLIPxDR0eiAizAQ8Q-XwhBt_0asYiXi91XW4rnAKW8kxcog) Our organization, Not Dead Yet, receives calls from family members of persons being pressured to forego life sustaining treatment and even from families where treatment has been denied without prior notice or over their expressed objections under so…
…”, Michigan Law Review, June 2008, http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/106/8/hendinfoley.pdf). But the law includes no authority for investigation or enforcement, so nothing happens as a result. Pressure to choose assisted suicide or euthanasia can come in many forms, some hidden and private. A key problem is the law’s inability to protect individuals from unscrupulous family members. The two witnesses who attest to the absence of coerc…
…”, Michigan Law Review, June 2008, http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/106/8/hendinfoley.pdf). But the law includes no authority for investigation or enforcement, so nothing happens as a result. Elder abuse is a growing problem in the U.S., affecting an estimated one in ten elderly persons. Similarly, people with disabilities are up to four times more likely to be abused than their same-age nondisabled peers. In Oregon and Washington, leg…
…of talents – poet, performance artist, disability rights activist, and an Associate Professor at Clemson University. You can find out more about her at her website, jillianweise.com/. You can read more about Bill on our Board of Directors page….
