…anner logo of Costs Illustrated top center with Number 1979 and January/February 2022 above it. Listed in heavy white type on the left side of the image are the articles in this issue: How a Death-Wish Becomes a Law Australian Death Cultures: Tangy, Cheap, Utilitarian Beyond Ethics®: Fear-Based Ethics Make Assisted-Death Policy Sausage That Naïve And/Or Craven Elected Officials Can’t Get Enough Of Easy Weeknight Euthanasia Policy: Crips Are Dying…
…comment from a member of the nondisabled public who whose plans were interrupted by the shutdown of the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago: A blogger named Rudy hosts a blog that is titled the “Lager Beer Riot.” It’s explained on the blog: Know-Nothing Mayor of Chicago Levi (great nephew of Daniel) Boone incited the Lager Beer Riots of 1855 when, in a conscious attempt to curtail German immigrants’ ability to associate and organize, he prohibite…
…death, and without such witness, there’s no way to know whether the fatal drugs were administered by the person or their surrogate. (See https://www.kcba.org/newsevents/barbulletin/BView.aspx?Month=07&Year=2011&AID=article10.htm.) It all comes back to the conclusion I reached about the New Mexico case when I wrote about it in the Not Dead Yet blog: The New Mexico plaintiffs are all people who seem privileged enough to be justified in their confide…
…abuse cases in the United States annually, many are not. Once the lethal drugs are in the home, the drugs might be administered with or without the individual’s consent. Even if they struggled against it, who would know? When we’re talking about changing public policy that impacts both the health care system that everyone depends on, and the real world of families that are not necessarily all loving and supportive, we have an obligation to thin…
…fered from Lou Gehrig’s disease moved into her home, named her his estate trustee, deeded his home to a trust, and then died by physician-assisted suicide.” Two days after Thomas Middleton died, Sawyer listed the property for sale and deposited the sale money into one of her own accounts. This story came to light, not through any assisted suicide program safeguards, but through suspicious real estate transactions. Americans place tremendous value…
