Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet has written a great article responding to Stephen Hawking’s endorsement of assisted suicide on the grounds that “we don’t let animals suffer.” The part we like best? “The reality, Professor Hawking, is that you should be grateful you’re a human. Most likely, if you were someone’s pet dog, they […]
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Not Dead Yet to Stephen Hawking: “Be Grateful You’re a Human. Most likely, if you were someone’s pet dog, they would have put you out of ‘your misery’ a long time ago, even if you didn’t feel particularly miserable.”
Posted in Animal euthanasia argument, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition on September 25, 2013 | Comments Off
Adult Abuse in Vermont: Advocates Express Continued Concern Despite Settlement of Lawsuit
Posted in Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Elder Abuse on September 13, 2013 | Comments Off
On August 28, 2013, Vermont Public Radio reported that there has been a settlement in the lawsuit brought by Vermont Legal Aid against the state over its inadequate response times to reports of adult abuse (http://digital.vpr.net/post/advocates-settle-state-over-adult-abuse-cases). The settlement was based on the fact that the state has eliminated the long line of reported abuse cases […]
Still Think Assisted Suicide Is No Threat to People with Disabilities? Read This.
Posted in Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia on August 20, 2013 | Comments Off
A family in Canada has received an anonymous letter urging it to euthanize its 13 year old autistic child. Thanks to Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for posting this one on his blog page (http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2013/08/canadian-family-sent-letter-telling.html). You can click on the letter to enlarge and read it. Proponents of assisted suicide will react to […]
Don’t Believe Legal Assisted Suicide Devalues Life with a Disability? Read this, and Watch the Video.
Posted in Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities on August 13, 2013 | Comments Off
This woman believes she would be more valuable dead than alive, and she wants assistance in suicide. How sad, for her and for us all, that the media, rather than calling for people to support her in living until she dies naturally, seems ready to call her wished-for suicide an act of altruism. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/sherri-muzher-end-her-life_n_3719248.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
Lest We Forget that Assisted Suicide, Now Legal in Vermont, is Danger Thinly Disguised as Help, Diane Coleman Reminds Us.
Posted in Disability Rights Groups' Opposition on July 25, 2013 | Comments Off
The article in italics below appeared in the Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper and can be read online at http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2013/07/the_dangerous_help_of_assisted.html. The author, Diane Coleman is a disability rights activist. She reminds us that several people in Oregon have died more than six months after receiving a prescription for a lethal dose of barbiturates. If we […]
Posted in Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Slippery Slope on May 16, 2013 | Comments Off
For those who discount the slippery slope, here’s a taste of the future for people with disabilities like those assisted suicide advocates call “undignified” and which are also costly in the same way providing good care as a person dies would be costly, but for a longer period. Vermont has taken a giant step […]
Assisted Suicide Would Jeapardize Disabled People
Posted in Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Suicide Contagion on April 23, 2013 | Comments Off
Here is an excellent article on the impact of legal assisted suicide on people with disabilities. It asks an interesting question: why is no one concerned about “copy cat assisted suicide”? http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/04/22/mb-assisted-suicide-against-essay-winnipeg.html
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