On October 1, 2021, the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Health held a hearing on An Act relative to end of life options (H. 2381 and S. 1384). We previously featured testimonies this bill to legalize assisted suicide by John B. Kelly, Director of Second Thoughts MA: Disability Rights Advocates against Assisted Suicide and Lindsay […]
The hospital may not have called it a “futility judgment” when they pushed Chris Dunn to go into hospice as an alternative to spinal cord injury rehabilitation, but it’s hard to see it any other way. Here’s an extended excerpt from United Spinal Association’s New Mobility article “Refusing To Die: The Chris Dunn Story“: By […]
Bipartisan Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide Laws Reintroduced Anita Cameron, director of minority outreach for Not Dead Yet, will speak at a Congressional briefing to be held Thursday, December 12, 2019 in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The briefing is cosponsored by the National Council on Disability (NCD), Congressman Lou Correa (D-CA) […]
The National Council on Disability issued the following release on November 6, announcing the latest report in its bioethics series. Federal study finds certain health care cost-effectiveness measures discriminate, restrict access to lifesaving treatments for people with disabilities For Immediate Release […]
The National Council on Disability (NCD) has issued the second in a series of reports on Bioethics and Disability. NCD’s release on the report today focuses on “a federal examination of the country’s assisted suicide laws and their effect on people with disabilities, finding the laws’ safeguards are ineffective and oversight of abuses and mistakes […]
Dear NCD members: I have been a member of the board of Not Dead Yet in the United States since 2000. I am also the director of Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet, a project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities Ending of Life Ethics Committee to inform, unify and give voice to the disability rights […]
The National Council on Disability (NCD) is meeting today. Many years ago, NCD invited me to attend one of its meetings to debate Hemlock Society co-founder Derek Humphry. A few months later, NCD issued a groundbreaking and highly persuasive position paper opposing legalization of assisted suicide. Today, Not Dead Yet is urging NCD to re-issue […]
The National Council on Disability met on May 6th at the Ed Roberts Campus in San Francisco. This is a presidentially appointed Council that advises the Administration on disability policy. The Council always offers opportunities for public comment, and NDY has been asking NCD to help lead efforts to address abuses in health care decisions […]
