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Lisa Blumberg: A Classic Case of Lethal Denial of Medical Treatment Based On Disability. September 16, 2024 - 4:36 pm. Trisomy 18 is a genetic condition that usually results in physical health problems and cognitive limitations.
Diane Coleman is the President and CEO of Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights group which she founded in 1996 to give voice to disability rights opposition to legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
A little over a year after the passage of Bill C-7, which expanded access to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) in Canada to people whose natural deaths are not “reasonably foreseeable,” we are seeing the dangerous effects of this legislation for disabled people.
Unfortunately, that choice is not a reality for most. In states which have legalized assisted suicide, according to data from Oregon, over a third of those who request assistance to die do so because of “feelings of being a burden” and over 90% cite “loss of autonomy” as a factor.
I am Wendi Wicks and I am the convener of Not Dead Yet Aotearoa, a national network of disabled people opposed to the legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia. We in Not Dead Yet Aotearoa have some of the …
Why We Oppose Assisted Suicide Laws. If assisted suicide is legal, some people’s lives will be ended without their consent, through mistakes and abuse. No safeguards have ever been enacted or even proposed to prevent this outcome, which can never be undone. 1.
Mar 29, 2010 · NDY was involved with the fight to prevent Terri Schiavo’s death for several years. In 2003, I submitted an op-ed to the LA Times that was accepted and published. It must have struck some kind of chord, because it ended up appearing in over 20 newspapers – in and out of the USA.
Sep 16, 2022 · Lisa Blumberg: Getting Beyond Advance Medical Directives. For years, advance medical directives, popularly known as living wills, have been promoted as giving people control over what happens to them at “end of life”, i.e., when they are in dire medical straits. (1) It is hard to disagree with the concept.
Supplementing Your Advance Directive With A Video. Kaiser Health News recently carried an article encouraging people to create videos to help explain what’s in their advance directives, which are often overly complex legal boilerplate or overly simplistic checkbox forms.
Jun 17, 2022 · What started as an outbreak has turned into a worldwide pandemic, with over one million Americans dead. The Black community, especially, is being ravaged by COVID-19. We are three times more likely to die from it, and four times more likely to be hospitalized for it.
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