…mony co-authored by Carol Gill and myself, Not Dead Yet (NDY) began. The struggle against assisted suicide was about to take a dramatic turn. On June 21, 1996, NDY activists held our first direct action, picketing outside the Michigan cottage where Kevorkian was known to stay. The AP newswire carried a photo of the protest, the first media notice of our opposition. Three years later, when Jack Kevorkian was finally back in a Michigan courtroom, on…
…co-authored by Coleman and Dr. Carol Gill, Not Dead Yet (NDY) began. The struggle against assisted suicide was about to take a dramatic turn. On June 21, 1996, NDY activists held its first direct action, picketing outside the Michigan cottage where Kevorkian was known to stay. The AP newswire carried a photo of the protest, the first media notice of disability opposition. Three years later, when Jack Kevorkian was finally back in a Michigan courtr…
…tatement. From a perspective outside the U.S., it becomes clear that the struggle against medical killing is a global one, it is not just about assisted suicide, and that it is inextricably linked with economic and social policies that threaten the lives of disabled people everywhere. We are currently watching efforts to institute assisted suicide and/or euthanasia (AS/E) in New Zealand, Australia, England, Scotland, France, Germany and (of course…
…sed assisted suicide by more than 2 to 1, and often have a well-earned mistrust of the medical system. These laws make dominant the outlook of a professional class obsessed with individual achievement, autonomy, and status – thus the constant use of the word “dignity,” over the worldview of a working-class that relies on a family support system, connection, and reverence for elders. By undermining the value placed on old, ill, and disabled people,…
…ginning on Sept. 18, 2014. It’s National Suicide Prevention Month, but the World Federation of Right To Die Societies says that old, ill and disabled people should not get the same suicide prevention as everybody else. We in the disability rights movement disagree with their “better dead than disabled” policies, and we have a message: EQUALITY Every human being is of equal value. Laws that treat some lives as worth protecting, and other lives as w…
