…Following the hearing, the bill was tabled until next year. The following news coverage quoted disability advocates: Doctor-assisted suicide proposal tabled after emotional hearing (Star Tribune, 3/17/16); Minnesota’s assisted-suicide bill withdrawn after impassioned testimony (Twin Cities Pioneer Press, 3/16/16).] Today, Wednesday, March 16, the Minnesota Senate Health, Human Services, and Housing Committee held a hearing on SF 1880, a proposed…
…for the media. In 1996, urged by friends and colleagues with whom I had struggled to be heard on this issue, I founded Not Dead Yet. We’re a national, grassroots disability group with activists in most U.S. states, including Minnesota, who oppose legalization of assisted suicide. We also promote policies that seek to ensure that the withholding and withdrawal of life sustaining healthcare is truly informed and voluntary, not the result of devalua…
…vailable): Also, please re-send any local Me Before You articles, blogs or news coverage links if it’s relatively easy to do so. We’re still compiling those for posterity. Thanks! – Diane Sign On Letter: Kevin Tsujihara, CEO Warner Brothers 4000 Warner Boulevard Burbank, CA. 91522 Dear Mr. Tsujihara: We, the undersigned national, state and local disability organizations are writing to express our urgent concerns about the negative impact of the pl…
A few days ago, we reported the news of the massacre of 19 disabled people in Sagamihara, Japan. There’s been a lot of writing within the disability community about this horrific hate crime, but very little in the mainstream press. There have been a few vigils for the victims of the attack, but it’s hard to impossible for all those who want to join in talking, grieving and learning to get together physically. On Thursday, August 4th, the Disabili…
…wary of physicians being give the legal immunity and right to prescribe a drug or mixture of drugs to end a patient’s life,” she said. Some assisted suicide bill proponents try to make it seem that disability advocates are fighting against terminally ill people. Actually, we are fighting for everyone. Think of us as the canaries in the coal mine – we live on the front lines of a health care system that is too often focused more on money than care….
