Register for the next Compassionate Community Care - Visitor Training Program - July 9 and 10.

Kathy Matusiak Costa

Register for the free online visitor training program and becoming involved with visiting people in your community who are elderly and/or living alone.

 

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Caring for people. Gain the confidence to journey with those who are lonely, socially isolated, sick, or dying, to renew their hope and purpose in living until they die.

 

Alex Schadenberg

FREE Online Training – Live on Zoom! 

The Training Workshop is composed of two sessions, each session is two hours held on: 

Wednesday July 9 (7 pm - 9 pm) (EST)

Thursday July 10 (7 pm - 9 pm) (EST)

With Kathy Matusiak Costa, Executive Director of Compassionate Community Care, and Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. 

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Assisted suicide puts a price on my head.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Kate Ferguson reported for The Sun News that Lord Kevin Shinkwin, a member of the House of Lords, considers the UK assisted suicide bill, that narrowly passed in the UK House of Commons, said that if the assisted suicide bill was legalized in the past that he would not be alive today. Ferguson wrote:

Lord Kevin Shinkwin said the Terminally Ill Adults Bill “puts a price on my head” and he would have felt pressure to agree to having a lethal injection over fear of being a burden.

The Tory's warning comes as campaigners vow to fight the assisted dying bill in the Lords after MPs narrowly backed it by just 23 votes on Friday.

Lord Shinkwin, 54, is a disability rights campaigner who has a severe form of brittle bone disease.

Ferguson further reported Lord Shinkwin as stating:

He said: “I am a disabled person. I cost the NHS, over the course of my lifetime, probably several million pounds to keep me alive.

“This Bill would put a price on my head — on the head of so many disabled people.”

When asked if he would be alive today if assisted suicide was already legal, Shinkwin responded:

“I think you have hit the nail on the head.

"Absolutely. I was in intensive care a few months ago, and had a doctor come over to me when I was extremely vulnerable and said, ‘Have you considered assisted dying?’, I would have felt under real pressure to do that.”

Ferguson reported that Shinkwin hopes to amend the assisted suicide bill while other peers are working to prevent the bill from passing.

I Threw Stephanie Green’s Book in a Toilet.

Meghan Schrader

By Meghan Schrader
Meghan is an instructor at E4 - University of Texas (Austin) and an EPC-USA board member.

In the documentary Crip Camp, there’s a 1970s video of Judy Heumann noting how oppressed disabled people are despite the new tool of Section 504, and remarking, “I’m tired of being grateful for accessible toilets.” I agree with Judy Heumann. Therefore I acquired a copy of “Dr” Stephanie Green’s book about how much she loves her job as a serial killer in a way that would not get her a royalty and flushed it down a toilet. Or rather I threw it in; it wouldn’t go down all the way.

I did this partly for the book’s sake; the book was homesick. When I looked at the book, I could hear it crying out to me, begging me to return it to its proper home in the toilet.

I didn’t really hear the book talking to me, but I stand by my decision. Generally I think well-reasoned academic arguments about the right to die movement’s historical roots in the eugenics movement and its role in exacerbating systemic ableism are the best way to undermine the euthanasia movement’s agenda. However, I wonder if every once in a while, these nice, polite discussions about killing disabled people should be punctuated with unequivocal expressions of disgust.

I threw Stephanie Green’s book in a toilet because her work conditions disabled people to aspire to be lumps of rotting flesh. Stephanie Green’s book belongs in a toilet because people like her have published a children’s book detailing disabled people’s deaths by “MAiD” that disabled children will read, causing those children to believe that they too should embrace this glorious opportunity to rot in the ground.

I threw Stephanie Green’s book in a toilet because organ transplant orgs are calling people with pending “MAiD” applications to ask for their entrails. I myself am an organ donor, but if a Canada-like system ever comes to the United States, I will cut up my ID with the little red heart on it and flush the pieces down my toilet, because I will not participate in an organ transplant system that incentivizes disabled people to die by suicide.

I threw Stephanie Green’s book in a toilet because in an equitable society, disabled people’s equal right to exist would not be up for debate. Yet the right to die movement is conditioning generations of disabled people to see themselves as nothing but organ farms. This plan for disabled people’s fourth class citizenship is so evil that it belongs in a toilet.

I threw Stephanie Green’s book in a toilet because I want to tell other people with disabilities that they deserve a good life. I want to encourage disabled readers to find the self respect to stand up for themselves and demand something better than having their lives flushed down a toilet.