Announcing!
Webinar: Disability Rights Opposition
To Assisted Suicide Laws
To Assisted Suicide Laws
Wednesday, October 30, 2019,
3:00-4:30 pm Eastern Time
3:00-4:30 pm Eastern Time
What Will You Gain By Attending:
- Familiarity with the key issues, arguments and common questions
- Materials that explain, detail, and document individual cases of assisted suicide problems and abuses
- Understanding what disability has to do with assisted suicide
Speakers:
- Anita Cameron, Director of Minority Outreach, Not Dead Yet
- Diane Coleman, President/CEO, Not Dead Yet
- Marilyn Golden, Senior Policy Analyst, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
- John Kelly, Director, Second Thoughts Massachusetts
Topics Include:
- What is Assisted Suicide?
- What’s disability got to do with it?
- Deadly mix between assisted suicide & pressures to cut healthcare costs
- Elder and disability abuse; effects on other constituencies
- Palliative care and palliative sedation can address pain
- Failure of so-called “safeguards”
- Minimal data and fatally flawed oversight, no investigation of abuse
- Suicide contagion
- What’s happening in Canada and other countries?
- Take action!
For More Information: mgolden@dredf.org
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