…hts community urge N.Y. lawmakers to reject Medical Aid in Dying Act (Spectrum News, 02/14/24) America is racing toward Canada’s euthanasia free-for-all – as seven more states eye legalizing assisted suicide (Daily Mail, 02/11/24) Should Illinois become 11th state to adopt ‘right-to-die’ legislation? (Chicago Sun Times, 02/09/24) Letter: Why we’re against Medical Aid in Dying (Adirondack Daily Enterprise, 02/06/24) Minnesota’s end-of-life options…
…ability Activist,” Elle, Aug. 1, 2017, https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a47075/disability-activist-health-care/?src=social-email [2] “Ethical Decision Making With End-of-Life Care: Palliative Sedation and Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatments,” Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Oct. 2010, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2947968/ [3] http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/ageing/WPA201…
…ng this and refrained from posting anything on it. Yesterday, though, more stories started popping up, starting with a press release. The release was quickly followed by stories on many entertainment/celebrity/gossip sites. The story by AVN contained new information: Though at first the idea of streaming a suicide live on such a platform might seem to be an exploitive and cynical use of new technology, as David tells it, the idea did not originate…
…report.pdf [27] Autopsy Cutbacks Reveal “Gray Homicides”: http://canhr.org/newsroom/canhrnewsarchive/2011/NPR20110205.html [28] 42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq. [29] See e.g., Not Dead Yet et al. brief in Gonzales v. Oregon (http://notdeadyet.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gonzales.html) and Morris v. Brandenburg (http://notdeadyet.org/ndy-et-al-amicus-brief-in-new-mexico-supreme-court-in-morris-v-brandenburg) [30] Medical Futility in End-of-Life Care,…
…tegic. Anyone who is a political cable news junkie knows about the “Friday news dump.” News “dumped” on a Friday minimizes news coverage – news readership of papers is down, news stations aren’t staffed as well. By the time Monday comes, the news is stale and no longer news at all. Strong Hospital and the Catholic Family Center picked a perfect Friday for minimizing any attention being given to the death of Dorothy Livadas. The media is focussed o…
