…y to challenge the assisted suicide movement and other deadly forms of medical discrimination. With the increasing popularity of “Dr. Death” Jack Kevorkian, whose body count was mainly people with disabilities who were not terminally ill, there had been growing talk of a street action group like ADAPT to address this critical threat to our lives. So, from a running gag in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Bob suggested “Not Dead Yet.” On…
…could improve people’s lives (Minnesota Post, 02/06/24) Joan Cavanagh: Medical-assisted suicide endangers our most vulnerable (CT Mirror, 11/01/23) Lisa Blumberg: Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (Newsweek, 09/11/23) Terri Hancharick: Being disabled doesn’t mean death is better than life (Delaware State News, 09/07/23) Daniese McMullin-Powell: Physician-assisted suicide discriminates against persons with disabiliti…
…having presumptions about the quality of their lives influence the way medical providers…respond to them. ” [1] The Committee’s statement of the problem leads in the wrong direction. It sees the problem as the reluctance of transplant hospitals to approve persons with certain fatal diseases for living donation due to concerns over violating informed consent policy requirements and because all living donor deaths within two years of the organ donat…
…rights perspective on topics related to assisted suicide, euthanasia, medical ethics, third party decisions to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment and homicides of persons with disabilities. There were over 70,740 views of the website during the reporting year, and NDY posted 162 Facebook entries and 257 tweets. NDY posted five videos on Not Dead Yet’s You Tube channel. Media: National NDY issued ten press releases. NDY staff, board and ac…
…rights perspective on topics related to assisted suicide, euthanasia, medical ethics, third party decisions to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment and homicides of persons with disabilities. There were over 59,927 views of the website during the reporting year, and NDY posted 130 Facebook entries and 176 tweets. NDY created or participated in three videos on NDY topics. Media: National NDY issued three press releases and participated in tw…
