We don't need to die to get dignity! Dignity is inherent. Disabled people deserve suicide prevention not a pat on the head and a glass of poison @Mapoli
#NoAssistedSuicideMA Join @2ndThoughtsMA and @NotDeadYetUSA Thurs 10-13 11:45 AM John Adams Cthouse (Somerset @ Ashburton Place) + Facebook live #PAS belongs in pple’s legislature, where #PWD get listened to. @BostonGlobe @statehousenews @wgbh2boston notdeadyet.org/2022/10/media… /1
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After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of #COVID19. Welcome to private, for-profit #eldercare, by @YasminRafiei newyorker.com/news/dispatch/… via @NewYorker @egpayne #LTC
We must take the profit out of nursing homes, it means worker shortage, patient neglect, and increased deaths.
Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in @NewYorker newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
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The top 5 reported reasons for assisted suicide requests have nothing to do with pain, but with unaddressed disability-related issues. Ableism kills. Disabled people need support, not #MurderByMedicine. Oppose MA S.1384 @CindyFriedmanMA @Sen_Chandler @repjohnlawn @jaylivingstone
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Protect Disabled Lives in Massachusetts: Oppose S.1384/ H.2381, which would legalize assisted suicide & risk the lives of disabled people. Use this form to send the message to the MA Joint Committee on Health Care Financing that these bills must not pass!
ALT Black and red text on a white background reads “Say no to murder by medicine. S1384/H2381 puts disabled lives at risk in Massachusetts. Assisted suicide is not health care. Tell your legislators on the Health Care Financing Committee to vote NO on these dangerous bills!”. The Not Dead Yet logo is in the center on the bottom of the graphic.
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DREDF: [A]ssisted suicide discriminates against people with disabilities, degrades their perceived value and worth, and puts them at higher risk of discrimination and abuse.
DREDF: [A]ssisted suicide discriminates against people with disabilities, degrades their perceived value and worth, and puts them at higher risk of discrimination and abuse. notdeadyet.org/2022/02/ndy-1…
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Connecticut: we'll propose a bill to give suicidal patients lethal drugs to kill them, but don't you dare use a plastic straw! #ctleg #CTPolitics #CTnews #disability @2ndThoughtsCT
Opinion: For some disabled, plastic straws bring independence ctmirror.org/category/ct-vie…
Connecticut, reject assisted suicide. Reason 1 Misdiagnosis. 12% to 15% of people who enter hospice w terminal diagnosis "graduate". Assisted suicide inevitably takes lives of trusting, innocent people. Time for Second Thoughts. @RepSteinberg @ctnewsjunkie
Hello @RepSteinberg, following up on our @FullStoryWSHU discussion, here is citation 4 terminal misdiagnosis rate of 12%-15%. That's 20 or more of the 168 OR 2018 deaths. Too high a price to pay! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… @ctnewsjunkie #CTleg @ctcapitolreport @2ndThoughtsCT
Oregonian Jeanette Hall voted 4 assisted suicide ballot measure, She was diagnosed terminal. Asked Dr. 4 Rx, he persuaded her 2 try treatment. Now alive 18 yrs later. Keep CT Jeanettes alive, reject HB 5898 @JNCWriter #ctleg @RepSteinberg @ctnewsjunkie archive.boston.com/bostonglo…
#PAS proponents say 21 years in Oregon, no prob. 2 nurses tried 2 kill Wendy Melcher, w morphine suppositories. OR nursing board kept secret, tap on wrist penalty. @RepSteinberg @CTnewsjunkie #ctleg @SusanHaighAP dredf.org/wp-content/uploads…
#PAS proponents say 21 years in Oregon, no prob. 2 nurses tried 2 kill Wendy Melcher, w morphine suppositories. OR nursing board kept secret, tap on wrist penalty. @RepSteinberg @CTnewsjunkie #ctleg @SusanHaighAP dredf.org/wp-content/uploads…
Oregonian Jeanette Hall voted 4 assisted suicide ballot measure, She was diagnosed terminal. Asked Dr. 4 Rx, he persuaded her 2 try treatment. Now alive 18 yrs later. Keep CT Jeanettes alive, reject HB 5898 @JNCWriter #ctleg @RepSteinberg @ctnewsjunkie archive.boston.com/bostonglo…
Hello @RepSteinberg, following up on our @FullStoryWSHU discussion, here is citation 4 terminal misdiagnosis rate of 12%-15%. That's 20 or more of the 168 OR 2018 deaths. Too high a price to pay! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… @ctnewsjunkie #CTleg @ctcapitolreport @2ndThoughtsCT
Connecticut, reject assisted suicide. Reason 1 Misdiagnosis. 12% to 15% of people who enter hospice w terminal diagnosis "graduate". Assisted suicide inevitably takes lives of trusting, innocent people. Time for Second Thoughts. @RepSteinberg @ctnewsjunkie
CT Public Health Committee meeting tomorrow, 4/1. While anything can happen, we appear to have just enough votes to defeat #AssistedSuicide #HB5898 in committee. Please keep up the e-mails to committee members to VOTE NO. #noPASct #ctpolitics #ctleg
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Survivors of abuse used #WhyIDidntReport to highlight the difficulties, fear, anger and shame that so often surround sexual harassment and assault nyti.ms/2MW67lz
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Since #WhyIDidntReport started, the organization that runs the National Sexual Assault Hotline says it saw a 42% increase in phone calls compared to an average Friday and Saturday. cbsn.ws/2pyHHoV
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Even the Congress that resisted Hillary-care did not deny her Children's Health Insurance Program. Loss of CHIP is yet another travesty. nitter.gq/GreggBeratan/status/91…
