…xecutive Director of the Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF), entitled The Brutal, Tragic, Consequences of Quality of Life Judgements. Though PRAF’s mission is focused on opposing assisted suicide laws, the op-ed does an uncommonly good job discussing other discriminatory and harmful medical practices that are largely based on quality of life judgments and devaluation of people with disabilities. The article begins by describing the Alta Fixsler ca…
…ability rights advocates in cities across the United States and around the world are protesting the latest Hollywood movie to end with the assisted suicide or euthanasia of the lead disabled character. Advocates in [city] will be at [Theater Name] at [Theater address] on [Date] at [Time – specify half hour after your protesters plan to arrive so they are ready when media arrive]. Me Before You is scheduled for general audience release on Friday, J…
…liability, assist the qualified individual by preparing the aid-in-dying drug so long as the person does not assist the qualified person in ingesting the aid- in-dying drug.” Id. at § 443.14 (emphasis added). [Motion, p. 7] Because the EOLOA prohibits assistance with ingesting AID medication, the benefits of the EOLOA are inaccessible to physically disabled terminally ill persons whose disability, as with Ms. Morris and Ms. Doe in the very near f…
…the contradiction this way: Singer has spent his career trying to lay down rules for human behavior which are divorced from emotion and intuition. His is a world that makes no provision for private aides to look after addled, dying old women. Yet he can’t help himself. “I think this has made me see how the issues of someone with these kinds of problems are really very difficult,” he said quietly. “Perhaps it is more difficult than I thought before…
…his own terms should be available to all disabled people everywhere in the world. When a disabled person says that they “do not have a minimum of autonomy in daily life,” then that is an indictment of a society and a system that disrespects their equality and civil rights. And the solution to this is not to push assisted suicide as the way to deal with medically complicated individuals – it is to seek to ensure the autonomy of the disabled person…
