I wanted to highlight two valuable resources for NDY readers. I try to point out other sites and blogs containing material related to NDY issues. They are valuable for me and I figure that readers of this blog will find them valuable as well.
First off is a brand-new website. Better Off Alive is a creation of Pamela F. Hennessy, with Clair Lewis currently listed as the sole other contributor on the site. The site covers a range of subjects – media, elder care, eugenics, euthanasia – to name a few. Here’s a brief description of the of the site from the source:
Better Off Alive is a community for people who have been denied wanted health care or who have been encouraged to hasten their own deaths because they live with disabilities or chronic medical circumstances.
Our contributors are people whose lives have been directly touched by these issues, disability rights advocates, life advocates and those who seek a higher level of medical ethics and the restoration of personal liberty to people victimized by health care rationing.
Please check out Better Off Alive – better yet, bookmark it to check back for updates.
Next up is a newly-updated resource. Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) has overhauled its section on assisted suicide with lots of resource material. Here’s some info on DREDF from the site:
The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, founded in 1979, is a leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities.
The mission of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund is to advance the civil and human rights of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and public policy and legislative development.
The vision of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund is a just world where all people, with and without disabilities, live full and independent lives free of discrimination.
While I disagree with the anti- right-to-die content on the new site, the design and the layout of the site, appears to be quite good, very professional-looking.
I have to smile at a line like “the anti- right-to-die content”. I’d like to see how that is possible: anti-right-to-die. Sort of a word-twist that has serious, unfunny implications to me. It’s as if “assisted suicide” was on the opposite end of a seesaw…and it’s not.