…lanned for, during disasters. Individuals with cognitive impairments may struggle with public safety instructions when disaster occurs. People who are blind, Deaf, etc. may have difficulty communicating during the emergency – especially when sign language interpretation is lacking or inadequate. All of these factors persist and they compound and increase the degree of risk in disaster situations for people with disabilities. Despite the necessary…
…lywood movies, John tells host Chris Lovett of Boston Neighborhood Network News, produced “to confirm people’s beliefs that our lives are not worth living.” The segment includes the suicide prevention public service announcement targeting disabled people created by the Center for Disability Rights in Rochester New York. John also comments on the assisted suicide bill recently defeated in the Massachusetts legislature. Chris asks John about Will’s…
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…d Dying Law in Court September 30, 2024 – 12:57 pm [Belatedly sharing good news from Inclusion Canada] PRESS RELEASE: Disability Rights Coalition Challenges Discriminatory Sections of Canada’s Assisted Dying Law in Court September 26, 2024, 10:30 a.m. ET TORONTO, ON – A coalition of disability rights organizations and two personally affected individuals … Continue reading Disability Rights Coalition Challenges Discriminatory Sections of Canada’s A…
…death’ is ‘my choice’ . . . and act on it. Those of us on the autism spectrum can take messages like this quite literally.” Mendelsohn’s testimony also points to the dangers of future expansion of eligibility for assisted suicide beyond the parameters in the current bill, based on public comments by assisted suicide proponents: “When Compassion & Choices president Barbara Coombs Lee came to Hartford last October, she declared her support for assi…
