tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post8064130839444850383..comments2024-03-16T16:44:18.220-07:00Comments on Bad Cripple: Dr. Oz on Assisted Suicide: A Train Wreckwilliam Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00223601480542461802noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-81672424821614582512014-01-22T17:09:33.450-08:002014-01-22T17:09:33.450-08:00It seems everyone is forgetting that the current l...It seems everyone is forgetting that the current laws require you to be diagnosed as terminal with LESS THAN SIX MONTHS TO LIVE. In addition, the person must request three separate times to die by their own hand. What risk is this to anyone that doesn't want to die and why should someone that does be forced into a painful or humiliating death? I'm disabled and do not fear this legislation as it is not available to me, I wouldn't request it, and do not qualify. Please educate yourselves on how these laws work. No one is going to force you into using this. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-58406091784818239812011-11-10T10:42:24.891-08:002011-11-10T10:42:24.891-08:00Thank you for this article. I'm a nurse who w...Thank you for this article. I'm a nurse who works with the disabled and non-disabled. And you know what? People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Physical ability doesn't seem to enter into it. <br /><br />Of course, you have to keep in mind alterations in brain chemistry that could cause depression, or someone who is still reeling from a recent loss. But in the normal day-to-day life, people either make the most of their opportunities or they don't.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12825714893882261025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-83162344180600878322011-10-27T08:52:02.492-07:002011-10-27T08:52:02.492-07:00Carrie, Thanks for your comment. I know nothing ab...Carrie, Thanks for your comment. I know nothing about how an audience for a day time television show is selected. All I can do is report that the audience on the day I was present was shockingly hostile. I agree education is the key to changing people's attitudes. I would simply posit what is taking so long in terms of disability rights? The last forty years we have enacted one law after another designed to empower people with a disability. I see little change and encounter bias and bigotry on virtually a daily basis. I read story after story in the mainstream media that demeans and disability rights. Our Mayor states accessible taxis are a danger to the non disabled. And do people really need to have some connection with disability or a person with a disability to respect their rights. Why can't we all simply acknowledge and value the ADA, the last great ciil rights legislation we have passed into law. As for apathy, I have been fighting that since I was 18 and yet I have no idea if I have accomplished a thing.william Peacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00223601480542461802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-76420317042243135502011-10-27T03:26:07.769-07:002011-10-27T03:26:07.769-07:00Mr. Peace, please keep in mind that the audience c...Mr. Peace, please keep in mind that the audience could have been selected for their lack of understanding and empathy. There will always be a percentage of people who are just jerks and hate everyone else, but most of us know someone who is disabled. Why would we hate people we know? <br /><br />I think more than fear and hate, you should work to fight apathy. Many of us should know better and just don't think. Haters always hate, but the distracted and can be brought to focus.Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07536706673011233348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-62280228543139628772011-10-26T20:27:56.869-07:002011-10-26T20:27:56.869-07:00Dowz, We have the right to die without assisted su...Dowz, We have the right to die without assisted suicide legislation. Any person can choose to forego life saving treatment. In part, this is what palliative care provides. We need not advocate assisted suicide that puts many vulnerable populations at risk. As many have postulated when does the desire to die become the duty to die?william Peacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00223601480542461802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-40127205824096881712011-10-26T13:16:17.718-07:002011-10-26T13:16:17.718-07:00Of course we all have the right to live. Do we not...Of course we all have the right to live. Do we not also have the right to die on our own terms, when and where we want to? <br />If someone with ANY disability would rather die than live on with it, is that not their right, their choice, their decision ..... not yours?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627526066790080795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-10691903662693261122011-10-24T14:41:25.250-07:002011-10-24T14:41:25.250-07:00Usethebrain... Economic ruin is the thing all but ...Usethebrain... Economic ruin is the thing all but the wealthiest Americans worry about at the end of life. The stats you refer to are sobering. It is just wrong. <br />Phil, I had exceedingly low expectations. In retrospect the show was scripted to use disability and one person with a disability as a tear jerking story line to push forward an assisted suicide agenda. <br />Cait. There was visceral hatred in the air that was indeed based on fear. Stunning to me but it cannot be ignored. If anything good came from the taping it is that I saw just how feared and despised people with a disability are. It was not a day I will soon forget.william Peacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00223601480542461802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-30166483533007966652011-10-23T16:46:51.201-07:002011-10-23T16:46:51.201-07:00Dr. Oz, Oprah, Dr. Phil...all birthed by the same ...Dr. Oz, Oprah, Dr. Phil...all birthed by the same industry...entertainment. They all just talk, none has real understanding, real empathy and each has a myopic view of reality. I'm not sure is Dr. Oz knows anything about the nature of disability. I agree with you fully...I'm tuning into Judge Judy instead for my hour of lunacy.Phil Dzialohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150881545903849250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-52173920675888588262011-10-22T14:10:21.232-07:002011-10-22T14:10:21.232-07:00The reality is people choose to die because they b...<b>The reality is people choose to die because they believe they have no dignity and fear being an economic burden on their loved ones. </b> That, in my health, is my greatest fear for the future, that they would attempt to take care of me, with their own futures being compromised. Of course, I'd do it for them, it's only money. I don't know why the thought bothers me.<br /><br />The burden of medical expenses the most frequent cause of bankruptcy (62%), with 78% of those people having insurance, according to a Harvard study. (http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109143/top-5-reasons-why-people-go-bankrupt?mod=bb-checking_savings)Usethebrains Godgiveyouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026223483117357541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-89515103653969175752011-10-21T14:09:56.055-07:002011-10-21T14:09:56.055-07:00Bill, your column highlights one of the symptoms o...Bill, your column highlights one of the symptoms of a continuing problem- society doesn't respect people who are different. Instead, it fears them, which is why the show was opposed to your views. Those people were clearly terrified of you, & of all people with disabilities. Some people have very small minds, & even smaller imaginations, so they can't imagine the life of a person with a disability as a positive experience; they're shocked to their foundations at the very idea, & not only that, they're afraid, & what they fear, they hate. <br />Society must learn to not only accept, but embrace, all people who are different in some way, including people with disabilities. It must realize that different is good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com