…lf in an open-ended fashion. The rest of the show covered topics such as the history of the euthanasia movement, significant players in the movement, it’s possible future, and how the latest fallout from criminal investigations of the Final Exit Network might affect the debate in the days, weeks and months to come. –Stephen Drake…
…tive(s) on euthanasia, assisted suicide, medical killing and other related topics. There are several reasons for this. For starters, NDY is a secular group. Second, NDY is a disability rights group. If that’s not enough, there is plenty of exposure on the internet and in the media for religious viewpoints. This is our space for making our case. Having said that, though, there’s good reason once in awhile to share something from the realm of religi…
…is titled “Assisted Suicide: A Necessary but Depressing Debate.” It should come as no surprise when I strongly recommend that people who are interested in these issues read what he has to say. Part of his entry has to deal with Tom Shakespeare’s recent published support of the Falconer bill in the UK – and my critique of his essay: Like Drake, I found Shakespeare’s position and arguments weak and misleading. I also agree with Drake that Shakespear…
…nother interested advocacy organization that DCF ordered that treatment be commenced. This young man is now in complete remission and living in an adoptive placement. 8. In 2009 I represented a woman who has a brain injury that was the result of a complication of a heart transplant. The woman lived at a long term rehabilitation facility. The treatment providers at this facility informed my client’s parents, who were her conservators, that she had…
…S half, so I must learn to do things halfway. I just have to learn to try to be good at being half a person.” Read more in tomorrow’s edition of the Post and Courier. Finally (for now, anyway), I owe Harriet thanks for my inclusion in the upcoming book, Peter Singer Under Fire: The Controversial Philosopher Faces His Critics. Her insistence on including the NDY critique was the reason we were included, since she made her own inclusion in the book…
