We now know that the coronavirus pandemic is deadly serious for all of the world’s people. This fact has been reasonably clear since mid-January, and was undeniably clear a month later. As of now, this nation does not have the pandemic under control, and we did not control it at any time since it began.
A letter to the New York Times by FEN Board President Brian Ruder
We are all in the high-risk category for death because all living things die. However, each of us hopes to live a long, productive (however defined), satisfying life in the meantime. Covid-19 is causing many of us to reassess how long we may have left.
We are happy to announce that the redesigned FEN website is up and running.
Diane Coleman, President and CEO of Not Dead Yet, looks at the lack of resources available in the health care system as the nation prepares for overwhelming COVID-19 cases and discusses hoe the disabled will be significantly endangered.
A dialogue about the right to die in interview format between the blog editor and a woman who has lived over four decades as a paraplegic.
Slippery slope arguments deny rationality, moral precepts, and legal principles. Few of us who believe in a right to die go beyond the formulation of this right as a voluntary decision of one person about that person’s life. The view that no one has the right to take from us the liberty to make such decisions to end our lives except ourselves appears to be the norm in this society for those who are near the end of their lives because of disease or condition. Voluntariness is inextricably bound up with the decision to die to escape suffering near the end of life.
A brief look at suicide historically, philosophically, constitutionally, legally, and practically as a right to all who value liberty.
How the Final Exit Network works to make hastening one’s own death a rational endeavor–a review of the process.
Drawing on reports from Forbes, New York Times, USA Today, AXIOS, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jill Richardson explains the cruelty of reducing or eliminating disability benefits for the most vulnerable Americans.
