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Ableism and the Right to Die

By | Disability, The Right to Die, VSED | 7 Comments

Last week, I referred a caller to the Final Exit Network (FEN) to John B. Kelly, a Not Dead Yet opponent of right-to-die (RTD) laws.  The person was inquiring on behalf of his brother (I’ll call him Carl) about the education and training services that FEN offers to applicants who want to hasten their deaths.  The brother was trying to learn if FEN could help Carl, who was despairing of his condition.

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Exploring Compassion & Choices’ approach to dementia, Part 2

By | Dementia | 4 Comments

In its new “Dementia Values & Priorities Tool,” Compassion and Choices (C&C) helps people clarify their wishes if they acquire dementia.  They offer a satisfactory, though limited, list of dementia-related symptoms (discussed in Part 1).  In Part 2, I have identified a few other (or slightly different) symptoms that are important to me in the event that I lose the ability to hasten my own death because of dementia or some unexpected reason, such as a stroke or other event that renders me incapable of carrying out a hastened death. Part 2 concludes an analysis of C&C’s approach to dementia.

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