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Canada: Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet established in Canada to organize against legalization of assisted suicide, euthanasia and associated threats
By
Stephen Drake
| January 10, 2013
As of a few months ago, Canada now has a disability rights group dedicated to fighting legalization of assisted suicide, euthanasia and associated threats to the lives and safety of people with disabilities.
Logo for Toujours Vivant/Not Dead Yet Canada
Here’s a description of the group and their mission from the “about” section of the TV-NDY website:
About TV-NDY
Who we are and what we do
Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet is a project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities Ending of Life Ethics Committee to include the voice of people with disabilities and focus on shifting public attitudes about euthanasia, assisted suicide, involuntary withholding and withdrawing treatment, organ allocation and harvesting, and other end-of-life practices that jeopardize the well-being of people with disabilities.
TV-NDY is a grassroots organization of Canadians with disabilities formed in response to the increasing popularity of assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada and beyond.
TV-NDY is a secular, progressive organization.
TV-NDY’s mission is to work against assisted suicide, euthanasia, and other end-of-life practices that tend to discriminate against people with disabilities, elders and other vulnerable populations.
TV-NDY will also bring a disability-rights perspective and awareness of the effects of these practices to the debate around end-of-life issues.
TV-NDY works to educate, support, coordinate and lead the disability community’s effort to stop the “right to die” from becoming a duty to die or a right to kill.
Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet is a project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities’ Ending of Life Ethics committee.
TV-NDY consists of persons with disabilities who oppose euthanasia, assisted suicide, and other end-of-life practices as violations of the civil and human rights of elders, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations.
We assert that society’s overall goal of discouraging suicide – as manifest in laws, policies and programmes aimed at preventing suicide – should be applied equally to all, including people with disabilities.
We hold that, in order to realize the promise of the charter of rights and freedoms, Canada has an obligation toward its citizens with disabilities to provide adequate health and palliative care according to the needs of the individual; prevent institutionalization, segregation and isolation; provide for the necessities of life and a reasonable standard of living; and remove social, economic, physical, communication, political and institutional barriers to full participation and equality.
We are thrilled that we now have a sister organization in Canada, which has Amy Hasbrouck as its Director.
