This just dropped into my mailbox and I haven’t had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet, let alone my own part of the interview.
Radio Netherlands has an extended story on developments regarding assisted suicide, with emphasis on the U.K., the Netherlands and the USA. I was contacted by Hermione Gee to represent NDY and our viewpoint for this segment.
Here’s the URL for the text description of the radio show:
Below is some context and a quote from my interview, which begins about 7 minutes into the show:
Stephen Drake of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet argues that any law that permits assisted dying for one group of people – for example the old, ill and disabled – but not for everyone, is implicitly discriminating against that group and undermining their value as human beings. As he sees it,
“euthanasia and assisted suicide gives society a great way to divest itself of people that they see as a burden while patting themselves on the back as being compassionate and noble”.
There is a button that links you to the audio of the show in the URL linked above. (Looks like it uses Windows mediaplayer, at least on my system)
But you can also reach it directly by clicking here.
I’ll do my best to get a transcript of my part of the interview up by the end of today. If I don’t manage that, it will be up by sometime on Monday. –Stephen Drake