Award Winning English Actress and International Disability Rights Activist Liz Carr to Appear Washington – Many are familiar seeing Liz Carr in various television and streaming roles (BBC: Silent Witness, Prime Video: Good Omens, Netflix: The Witcher, Marvel’s Loki: Disney +) and the Big Screen (Infinite), but in her documentary “Better Off Dead?” she goes […]
[Dated July 27, 2024] Yesterday, Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Charlie Falconer) introduced a Private Members Bill (there’s an explanation of what they are here) to make it legal to assist people who are terminally ill to die. As a group of disability rights campaigners, Not Dead Yet UK are deeply concerned about this course of […]
Our good friends at Not Dead Yet UK got some significant coverage including photos in the Big Issue publication last month. Big Issue Group describes itself as media and other “initiatives under a shared mission to create innovative solutions through enterprise, to unlock social and economic opportunity for the millions of people in the UK […]
The Government should be helping people to live – not die through assisted suicide The Telegraph Baroness Campbell 26 May 2021 Today a Bill to legalise assisted suicide is being presented in Parliament. Such a change has been considered many times in the past but has always been rejected for the same reasons. Despite what the propaganda […]
Looking at the picture of Noel Conway wearing a breathing mask like mine in today’s Guardian article “Terminally ill Noel Conway loses challenge to assisted dying ban“, I can’t help but feel a profound sense of relief. I acknowledge that acquiring a progressive neuromuscular disability later in life as Conway did is different than growing up with […]
A great opinion piece by Jamie Hale begins with a photo of two women in wheelchairs, seated in front of several artful props that suggest a graveyard. The photo has a caption above and below: I can see no safeguards to prevent people being pressured into ending their lives. What we need is more support […]
In a case brought in the U.K. by Noel Conway, a man with motor neuron disease, the High Court ruled against overturning legal protections against assisted suicide. Not Dead Yet U.K., which made a submission in the case, issued the following press release when the ruling came out. PRESS RELEASE: Disabled campaigners pleased that High […]
NDY UK’s Press Release on the July 17 court proceeding includes a powerful statement on the issues from a disability rights perspective. www.notdeadyetuk.org ********PRESS RELEASE: 16 JULY 2017 @ 14:00 ******** __________________________________ DISABLED AND TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE INTERVENE TO STOP NEW ATTEMPT TO LEGALISE ASSISTED SUICIDE Lawyers acting for Not Dead Yet UK will go […]
[Editor’s Note: NDY USA was honored many years ago when Jane Campbell asked if she could start NDY UK. Our sister organization has done incredible work. Here they share their reaction to the case of Noel Conway, a man with motor neuron disease, aka ALS.] NOT DEAD YET UK STATEMENT ON MR NOEL CONWAY’S LEGAL […]
On January 16th, the House of Lords in the UK will be debating Lord Falconer’s “Assisted Dying” bill yet again. (We all know that the term “assisted dying” is crock; and is only being pushed by advocates of assisted suicide because the public reacts more favorably to the term than anything using the word “suicide.”) […]
