In all the world, assisted dying, whether euthanasia or assisted suicide, is legal in only five countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and, very sadly, the US, where it is legal in Oregon and Washington. BBC World News recently presented a documentary in two parts in which Liz Carr, a person with disabilities opposed to assisted death in either form, … [Read more...] about A BBC Documentary in Two Episodes: Everyone Should Listen, Especially Our Legislators
Disability Rights Groups' Opposition
President of Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights Testifies Against Legalization of Assisted Suicide in State Senate Committee Hearing
Here's an article about the Friday testimony of Ed Paquin, a Vermont disability rights activist, the only one invited to testify at the hearings. Clearly no one was listening, but it's good testimony anyway, and VT legislators should have paid attention. The link is .http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10390846.htm. Rochester, NY (PRWEB) February 02, 2013 Ed … [Read more...] about President of Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights Testifies Against Legalization of Assisted Suicide in State Senate Committee Hearing
The Guardian, a progressive, left-leaning newspaper in England, reported recently that Japan’s Minister of Finance thinks elderly people should “hurry up and die”, to relieve pressure on the government to pay for their medical care: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese Despite the pro-suicide camp's tactics of promoting this legislation in … [Read more...] about
More on Blindness and Deafness as Reasons Not to Live
Steven Drake of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet has written two great articles reacting to the news of 45 year old deaf twins who were “voluntarily” euthananized in Belgium because they were going blind. The men were not terminally ill, yet they met the Belgian legal criteria for euthanasia because of the "grave and incurable suffering" they experienced from knowing … [Read more...] about More on Blindness and Deafness as Reasons Not to Live
A Vermont Disability Rights Activist Comments on the Euthanasia of Non-Terminally Ill Belgian Twins because They Were Going Blind
Yesterday, the media reported that deaf Belgian twins requested and received euthanasia because they were going blind. Here is the NBC story on the case: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/14/16507519-faced-with-blindness-deaf-twins-choose-euthanasia?lite , along with commentary (in italics) from Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg, a disability rights activist who lives in … [Read more...] about A Vermont Disability Rights Activist Comments on the Euthanasia of Non-Terminally Ill Belgian Twins because They Were Going Blind