Search Results for: final exit network/feed/rss2/We hold that mentally competent adults who suffer from a fatal or irreversible physical illness, from intractable physical pain, or from a constellation of chronic, progressive physical disabilities have a basic human right to choose to end their lives when they judge the quality of their life to be unacceptable.

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…lls for terminally ill (AP, 06/25/19) Bill to help terminally-ill patients end life to be debated on Beacon Hill (Boston 25 News, 06/24/19) She Was Terminally Ill. Her Husband Held the Gun to Her Head, Police Say (New York Times, 06/21/19) Assisted suicide: Mercy or malpractice? (Yahoo.com, 06/20/19) Dutch teenager Noa Pothoven complicates the death with dignity debate (Arizona Republic, 06/14/19) Tell Governor Mills to veto the Maine assisted sui…

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

…hy skepticism of medical predictions, particularly as it relates to future life quality.”[22] Evan Kemp, Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President George H.W. Bush, wrote: As a disabled person, I am especially sensitive to the “quality of life” rationale that is frequently introduced in the debate [over assisted suicide]. For the past 47 years I have lived with a progressive neuromuscular disease that first began to m…

NDY et al. Amicus Brief in New Mexico Supreme Court in Morris v. Brandenburg

…hy skepticism of medical predictions, particularly as it relates to future life quality.”[9] Evan Kemp, Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President George H.W. Bush, wrote: As a disabled person, I am especially sensitive to the “quality of life” rationale that is frequently introduced in the debate [over assisted suicide]. For the past 47 years I have lived with a progressive neuromuscular disease that first began to ma…

AMICUS BRIEF OF DISABILITY RIGHTS AMICI: NOT DEAD YET, ADAPT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK, DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND THE UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION

…hy skepticism of medical predictions, particularly as it relates to future life quality.”[9] Evan Kemp, Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President George H.W. Bush, wrote: As a disabled person, I am especially sensitive to the “quality of life” rationale that is frequently introduced in the debate [over assisted suicide]. For the past 47 years I have lived with a progressive neuromuscular disease that first began to ma…

NDY Public Comment To FDA On Patient Focused Drug Development for Chronic Pain

…in on quality of life and the unmet needs of pain management: results from pain sufferers and physicians participating in an Internet survey (Am J Ther 2008) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18645331 [6] Bair MJ, et al., Depression and pain comorbidity: a literature review, (Arch Intern Med, Nov 2003) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14609780 [7] Madhukar H. Trivedi, M.D., The Link Between Depression and Physical Symptoms (Prim Care Companio…