Wendi Wicks’ Hard Hitting Oral Testimony Against NZ End of Life Choices Bill

June 16, 2018"death with dignity", aid in dying, assisted suicide, New Zealand, Our News & Commentary Blog, Testimonyassisted suicide, Not Dead Yet Aotearoa, Testimony, Wendi WicksDiane Coleman

…nd because if this bill passes it would be Parliament agreeing that people – especially health workers – could look at me and my friends and say “I wouldn’t want to live if I was like you” and sign off a piece of paper to make that legal. Let me be clear: I don’t want your pity. I want your protection. I demand your protection for disabled people’s right to live in the absence of choice of the privileged. And let’s be very very clear that there ca…

NDY’s 24th Anniversary: Never Has the Fight For Our Lives Been More Urgent

April 26, 2020better dead than disabled, bioethics, Bob Kafka, COVID-19, healthcare rationing, john callahan, lifeboat ethics, medical discrimination, Our News & Commentary BlogCOVID-19, healthcare rationing, NDY AnniversaryDiane Coleman

…dst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the plague scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail hits painfully close to home, as an older man is thrown on a dead body cart, protesting he’s “not dead” – yet. Today, we’re seeing countless medical triage policies that would literally throw older and disabled people away. Never has the need to fight for our lives been more urgent. Our name has a bit of humor as well as a bite to it. Sometimes disability humor can…

Not Dead Yet, NMD United, et al. Sue NY Governor On Ventilator Re-Allocation Guidelines

October 8, 2020bioethics, court cases, COVID-19, Disability Rights New York, healthcare rationing, life-sustaining treatment, lifeboat ethics, medical discrimination, Our News & Commentary Blog, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, treatment withdrawal, ventilatorcourt cases, COVID-19, medical discrimination, New York State, ventilatorsDiane Coleman

…have their personal ventilators reallocated to other individuals, especially without another ventilator readily available for their use. 45. The Guidelines permit hospitals to take chronic ventilator users’ personal ventilators upon their arrival into a hospital and place them into the general ventilator allocation pool for distribution to those with higher SOFA scores. Id. at 40. 46. The Guidelines acknowledge that the policy “may place ventilat…

Not Dead Yet UK: Evidence of a Slippery Slope?

July 1, 2021"death with dignity", aid in dying, assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia, medical discrimination, Not Dead Yet UK, Our News & Commentary BlogDiane Coleman

…o end their lives in Canada are consistently growing year on year: https://bit.ly/3glUlmp The Canadian Government now propose that in March 2023 it plans to give patients with mental illness alone and no other underlying issues the option for a MAID. Within six years the scope of the assisted suicide legislation in Canada has been amended twice with further amendments planned. More people are now eligible, the death rate is increasing and the prot…

Assisted Suicide News Story Includes NDY Protest In Albany

July 1, 2022"death with dignity", assisted suicide, diane coleman, end-of-life options bills, Kevorkian, Matt Valliere, media coverage, New York, Not Dead Yet, Our News & Commentary Blog, Patients Rights Action Fund, protestsassisted suicide, disability protests, media coverage, medical aid in dying, Not Dead Yet, Patients Rights Action FundDiane Coleman

…nization Not Dead Yet in 1996 to oppose physician-assisted suicide. “The only real data is reported by the prescribing doctor; there’s no meaningful oversight.” The American Medical Association has debated the issue in recent years and hasn’t changed its stance: that ultimately, physician-assisted death does more harm than good. “That six months or less is a prognosis,” said Matt Vallière, executive director of the Patients Rights Action Fund, a n…