…y groups to assist the Attorney General or intervene as defendants in the case to ensure a full hearing of facts that were allegedly omitted in the original trial court. A free subscription to the Not Dead Yet blog is available online….
…ion that “frequent clinician-patient conversations about end-of-life care values, goals, and preferences are necessary to avoid unwanted treatment”, and equally concerning is the recommendation that these conversations be incentivized. A significant fear on behalf of the disability community is that incentivizing these conversations could in turn incentivize doctors to base conversations and recommendations on cost-cutting measures. For the full N…
…program. One of these decision aids focused on the use of medical nutritional support for those with serious illness and the other focused on breathing support for those with serious illness. The concerns expressed were that these decision aids were incomplete and biased or misleading, and could result in uninformed decisions and harm to people with disabilities, including loss of life. Once these concerns were expressed, the leaders of Respecting…
…ment of Health (“NY DOH”) published the Guidelines to address how to “ethically allocate limited resources (i.e. ventilators) during a severe influenza pandemic while saving the most lives.” New York State Task Force on Life and the Law & New York State Department of Health, Ventilator Allocation Guidelines at “Letter from the Commissioner of Health” (2015), available athttps://www.health.ny.gov/regulations/task_force/reports_publications/docs/ven…
…someone committing assisted suicide,” Carroll stated. “As long these external influences exist, the promise of a choice to end one’s life is a lie.” The disability organizations testifying against the bill are part of the New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide (nosuicideny.org), an informal association of many diverse organizations committed to preventing the legalization of assisted suicide in the state. Kathryn Carroll’s testimony for CDR is…
