HIGHLIGHT PIECE OF THE WEEK: ICYMI: Joint Statement Against Assisted Suicide for Eating Disorders
PRAF has joined over 30 international organizations and experts calling on governments to take immediate action against the practice of assisted suicide for individuals with eating disorders. Together, we’re urging governments to take immediate action to end this practice, which undermines decades of research on effective treatment and endangers lives. People with eating disorders need timely and effective treatment, not lethal medications.
"The study comes at a critical time, as eating disorders surge and many patients struggle to access treatment. Residential and inpatient treatment can cost more than $2,000/day, and few private treatment centers accept public insurance."
People with Disabilities At Risk of Assisted Suicide
"Rather than legalising the suicides of disabled people, we argue that the only safe way forward is better investment in palliative care and a commitment to improving the things that people often cite when they apply to die in other parts of the world, such as a lack of dignity and feeling like a burden."
Palliative Care Necessary To Combat Assisted Suicide
"Palliative care must stay open-minded and integrative as well as contemporary to show alternative routes of living a life to its dignified end despite being severely disabled."
"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.
We've appealed our case to the 9th Circuit. Click below to learn more about this lawsuit.
If you’re in crisis, there are options available to help you cope. You can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at any time to connect with a trained crisis counselor. For confidential support available 24/7 for everyone in the U.S., call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.
