Doctor murders disabled man to harvest organs

This story comes out of central California : San Luis Obispo County prosecutors have charged a transplant surgeon with prescribing excessive...

Olmstead Anniversary and the "right to die"

Today, June 22, 2007, is the eighth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. LC and EW . LC and EW are Lois Curtis and Elain...

Kevorkian's Big Lie

This is written by Diane Coleman, president of disability rights organization Not Dead Yet , from an op-ed in the North Country Gazette : E...

Slumgullion #39 -- The Jack's Back Edition

Yes, some coverage of Kevorkian's release and the assisted suicide debate: Colleen Carol Campbell at the Ethics and Public Policy Center...

Setting the record straight about Jack

The following via email from Steven Drake of Not Dead Yet : In 1993, Jack Kevorkian told Time Magazine , “If they will allow themselves to b...

The Huffington Post: Disability advocates should get over it

I've got some other stuff to do tonight, but wanted to share the link . Excerpt: From where I sit, I don't see how compassion in dyi...

Regarding Kevorkian

Not Dead Yet is demanding that the Associated Press retract and correct a faulty poll that asked the public misleading questions about the ...

Is Roger Ebert a disability activist?

Melissa McEwan at Shakesville notes that Roger Ebert has just released a statement in his home paper the Chicago Sun-Times about his fight...

Kevorkian paroled

After serving eight years of a 10-to-20-year sentence for second-degree murder, Jack Kevorkian is expected to be free on June 1, 2007. Alth...