…ssisted suicide contained no detailed balancing view. Debates afterards on Newsnight were weighted against the sole disability rights activist there (Liz Carr) and one religious representative. BBC online news last night gave brief overview on this matter: Ms Carr said: “I and many other disabled older and terminally ill people, are quite fearful of what legalising assisted suicide would do and mean and those arguments aren’t being debated, teased…
…Association’s annual conference held at the Hyatt Regency at Capitol Hill today. “For the first time, this organization has formally begun to narrow its mission – accomplished by declaring the suicides of some people to not be suicides at all.” The leaflets were distributed as Association members arrived for a moderated debate about the statement. The flyer asks, “Shouldn’t this debate have happened last year?” and raised several issues for psych…
…aders who was at the meeting and exactly what issues were covered. Earlier today, disabilityscoop, an online publication that describes itself as the “premiere source of developmental disability news,” published an article on the same meeting. As the title of the article indicates (Advocates Call for End to Transplant Discrimination), the article focuses on the issue of the denial of transplant consideration to people with disabilities, based sole…
…lationship and the integrity of the medical profession by eroding patient trust in the doctor’s role as healer;… – Whether physician-assisted suicide opens the door to the possibility of involuntary euthanasia, as has occurred in the Netherlands, because “what is couched as a limited right to ‘physician-assisted suicide’ is likely, in effect, a much broader license which could prove extremely difficult to police and contain,” Washington v. Glucksb…
…suicides of some people to not be suicides at all. Sure, there’s a debate today. But what’s the point, really? The AAS position is already out. Shouldn’t this debate have happened last year? Speaking of the Statement, we urge you to read it carefully. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you read: It’s claimed that there are strict safeguards mandating referral for psychological evaluation if “depression or other mental illness is [suspected…
