Join Annual Disability Day of Mourning Events March 1st

February 24, 2022Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, Day of Mourning, domestic violence, elder abuse, homicide, Homicide / 'Mercy Killing', murder, Our News & Commentary BlogDay of Mourning, homicide, mercy killingDiane Coleman

…isabilities who lost their lives at the hands of family members or caregivers. We will remember those we have lost and remind the world that their lives had value….

Equality, Dignity, Diversity, Pride

…ginning on Sept. 18, 2014. It’s National Suicide Prevention Month, but the World Federation of Right To Die Societies says that old, ill and disabled people should not get the same suicide prevention as everybody else. We in the disability rights movement disagree with their “better dead than disabled” policies, and we have a message: EQUALITY Every human being is of equal value. Laws that treat some lives as worth protecting, and other lives as w…

Matt Valliere On the Many Harms of Medical Quality of Life Judgments

November 3, 2021"death with dignity", ableism, assisted suicide, better dead than disabled, COVID-19, healthcare rationing, lifeboat ethics, Matt Valliere, Me Before You, medical discrimination, Michael Hickson, million dollar baby, Newsweek, op-ed, Our News & Commentary Blog, Patients Rights Action Fund, qaly, Quality Adjusted Life Years, quality of life judgments, treatment withdrawalassisted suicide, medical discrimination, Michael Hickson, PRAF, QALYsDiane Coleman

…xecutive Director of the Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF), entitled The Brutal, Tragic, Consequences of Quality of Life Judgements. Though PRAF’s mission is focused on opposing assisted suicide laws, the op-ed does an uncommonly good job discussing other discriminatory and harmful medical practices that are largely based on quality of life judgments and devaluation of people with disabilities. The article begins by describing the Alta Fixsler ca…

Disability Rights Community Responds to the Tucker Hire

September 14, 2014assisted suicide, Disability Rights Legal Center, dredf, kathryn tucker, Our News & Commentary Blogassisted suicide, Disability Rights Legal Center, Dredf, Kathryn TuckerDiane Coleman

…of sign-ons, in alphabetical order) • ADAPT • Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL) • Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) • Boston Center for Independent Living (BCIL) • Center for Disability Rights, New York State (CDRNYS) • Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center – Tim Fox and Amy Robertson (CREEC) • Communities Actively Living Independent & Free (CALIF) – Lillibeth Navarro, Executive Director • Community Access P…

John Kelly’s Open Letter to the House of Lords on UK Assisted Suicide Bill

…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 $90,000 into her own account. It took a federal investigation into real estate fraud to expose this abuse. Oregon’s assisted suicide program never noticed. The state decided in the end not to even prosecute S…