…pitals to reallocate the personal ventilators of people who seek acute medical care in a hospital during a time of triage to others deemed more likely to survive based on a mechanical scoring system. 2. The Guidelines deprive people with disabilities of a nondiscriminatory emergency preparedness program and risk placing chronic ventilator users in potentially life-threatening situations in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”),…

…could improve people’s lives (Minnesota Post, 02/06/24) Joan Cavanagh: Medical-assisted suicide endangers our most vulnerable (CT Mirror, 11/01/23) Lisa Blumberg: Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (Newsweek, 09/11/23) Terri Hancharick: Being disabled doesn’t mean death is better than life (Delaware State News, 09/07/23) Daniese McMullin-Powell: Physician-assisted suicide discriminates against persons with disabiliti…

…rights perspective on topics related to assisted suicide, euthanasia, medical ethics, third party decisions to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment and homicides of persons with disabilities. There were over 59,927 views of the website during the reporting year, and NDY posted 130 Facebook entries and 176 tweets. NDY created or participated in three videos on NDY topics. Media: National NDY issued three press releases and participated in tw…

…rights perspective on topics related to assisted suicide, euthanasia, medical ethics, third party decisions to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment and homicides of persons with disabilities. There were over 70,740 views of the website during the reporting year, and NDY posted 162 Facebook entries and 257 tweets. NDY posted five videos on Not Dead Yet’s You Tube channel. Media: National NDY issued ten press releases. NDY staff, board and ac…