HIGHLIGHT PIECE OF THE WEEK: End Assisted Suicide Explainer Video
See this video for the powerful, personal stories of plaintiffs taking the case to overturn California’s inherently discriminatory assisted suicide law.
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Higher Euthanasia Rates Mean Higher Risk for Canadians
"What is the right way to think about how the lives of those 15 human beings were terminated? Unpunished homicide? People who were suffering and dying, and had a right to a doctor’s help in ending it all, even if no one dotted all the 'i’s'? The sad but acceptable cost of a policy that, on the whole, reduces society’s quantum of suffering?"
In Memory of Disability Rights Activist, Lillibeth Navarro
We are mourning the loss of Lillibeth Navarro, a lifelong disability rights activist and member of one of the organization plaintiffs in the case filed in California. Read Diane Coleman of Not Dead Yet share a tribute to Lillibeth by following the link below.
Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act
"Amid existing health care disparities, assisted suicide, although ostensibly voluntary, imperils the ill and disabled. A law enabling it is discriminatory because it carves out an arbitrary health-related exception to the state's policy of deterring suicide attempts."
"End Assisted Suicide" is the group of plaintiffs suing the state of California to overturn the Assisted Suicide law there. Our 501(c)(3) sister organization, the Institute for Patients' Rights, has joined this ground-breaking lawsuit as a plaintiff. Watch our latest explainer video on the case below.
See this video for the powerful, personal stories of plaintiffs taking the case to overturn California’s inherently discriminatory assisted suicide law.
