Full Written Public Comment: Disability Related Concerns About POLST

…weeps-the-nation-85899484943 [2] National POLST Paradigm Task Force http://www.polst.org/develop-a-program/program-requirements/# Level 3: Program Requirements for Endorsed POLST Paradigm Programs [3] New Jersey and Nevada. [4] CANHR Policy Brief, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (“POLST”), Problems and Recommendations http://www.canhr.org/reports/2010/POLST_WhitePaper.pdf [5] See, e.g., www.adapt.org. [6] Delaware Health and Social…

Not Dead Yet (USA) Submission Opposing New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill

…Be Legalized, section on “Doctor Shopping” and related citations. https://dredf.org/public-policy/assisted-suicide/why-assisted-suicide-must-not-be-legalized/ [25] REQUEST FOR MEDICATION TO END MY LIFE IN A HUMANE AND DIGNIFIED MANNER http://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Documents/pt-req.pdf [26] U.S. Official: Elder Abuse is ‘Broad and Widespread,’ Healthline News, Jan. 27, 2014, http://www

Public Comment: Disability Related Concerns About POLST

…weeps-the-nation-85899484943 [2] National POLST Paradigm Task Force http://www.polst.org/develop-a-program/program-requirements/# Level 3: Program Requirements for Endorsed POLST Paradigm Programs [3] New Jersey and Nevada. [4] CANHR Policy Brief, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (“POLST”), Problems and Recommendations http://www.canhr.org/reports/2010/POLST_WhitePaper.pdf [5] See, e.g., www.adapt.org. [6] Delaware Health and Social…

Amicus Brief of Not Dead Yet et al (Disability Rights Amici) in Myers v. Schneiderman in NY Appellate Division

…bioethicist offers an apology, Lansing City News, October 6, 2004 (http://dredf.org/public-policy/assisted-suicide/a-bioethicist-offers-an-apology/).   [29] See H. Hendin and K. Foley, Physician-Assisted Suide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1613 (2008). [30] S. Miles, Physicians and Their Patients’ Suicide, 271 JAMA 1786 (1994).   [31] Most death requests, even in terminally ill people, are propelled by despair and treatable…

NDY Submission re: Draft General Comment on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

…Be Legalized, section on “Doctor Shopping” and related citations. https://dredf.org/public-policy/assisted-suicide/why-assisted-suicide-must-not-be-legalized/ [xvi] REQUEST FOR MEDICATION TO END MY LIFE IN A HUMANE AND DIGNIFIED MANNER http://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Documents/pt-req.pdf [xvii] See Hendin and Foley, Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective, Michigan L…