Lisa Blumberg: Assisted Suicide California Style

July 8, 2019"death with dignity", aid in dying, assisted suicide, california, Lisa Blumberg, Our News & Commentary Blogaid in dying, assisted suicide, California, death with dignity, Lisa BlumbergDiane Coleman

…e around with enough sway with him to suggest otherwise. Footnotes https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/obituaries/john-lheureux-dead.html https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/john-lheureux-05-06-19 https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2019/05/01/and-thus-suicide-began-prolific-author-john-heureux-wrote-his-final-essay-death-and-dignity/m4yqp88Bfb7RqSc1bFX0cM/story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/obituaries/john-lheur…

Robin Williams and the Hypocrisy of Suicide Prevention Organizations

August 24, 2014american foundation for suicide prevention, assisted suicide, International Association of Suicide Prevention, Our News & Commentary Blog, suicide, suicide preventionAmerican Association for Suicide Prevention, American Association of Suicidology, assisted suicide, Final Exit Network, International Association of Suicide Prevention, Robin Williams, suicide, suicide preventionStephen Drake

…sed to Final Exit’s mission, just how they’re delivering the message. “I visited the website and it’s populated by elderly folks who are at the end of a very long life and are in pain,” she said. “That’s a whole different issue to me.” Let me translate – Springer has just shrugged off any concern about any group that encourages and facilitates the suicides of “elderly folks” because it’s “different” than what she deals with. As of 2010, neither th…

Final Exit Network in the News – Reframing Themselves and Erasing the Past

December 22, 2009Arizona, assisted suicide, final exit network, homicide, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality checkStephen Drake

…he net and archives them. The site contains the files and material from websites that don’t even exist any more. The site is that extensive and that good. (The paragraph below has been corrected to report the appropriate cut-off of archiving of the FEN website) The press release isn’t there, either. In fact, the last archive of site files occurred in August 2008. That is very unusual – I won’t even hazard a guess as to why there aren’t archives fo…

Time Magazine Article Misrepresents Final Exit Network and Who They “Help”

March 4, 2009assisted suicide, crime and punishment, final exit network, media coverage, media issues, Our News & Commentary Blog, Time magazineStephen Drake

…hic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and Alzheimer’s disease often lose the reason and will to live long before their disease qualifies as “terminal.” Others who are facing protracted, losing battles with cancer, stroke, congestive heart failure, emphysema and other incurable conditions yearn for dignified withdrawal rather than clinging desperately to every breath. Many of these individuals are not being served. Final Exit Network will se…

Not Dead Yet Comment On Draft COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Framework

September 4, 2020bioethics, COVID-19, health disparities, healthcare rationing, lifeboat ethics, medical discrimination, Our News & Commentary Blog, public commentCoalition of Citizens with Disabilities, COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine, public commentDiane Coleman

…https://www.centerforpublicrep.org/covid-19-medical-rationing/ [2] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-bulletin-3-28-20.pdf?fbclid=IwAR351WokrC2uQLIPxDR0eiAizAQ8Q-XwhBt_0asYiXi91XW4rnAKW8kxcog [3] https://notdeadyet.org/2020/08/michael-hickson-disability-organizations-challenge-medical-futility-surrogate-decisions.html [4] See https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/features/unrecognizedpopulation.html, and https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/…