“The World Changed”: Barbara Roberts on the Lasting Impact of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act
October 11, 2019
Former Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts reflects on her decades of leadership in the Death with Dignity movement catalyzed by her late husband, Frank.
A Review of Wisdom from a Chair: Thirty Years of Quadruplegia
July 29, 2016
If you pay attention to the debates about death with dignity, be it in state legislative hearings, in the media, or online, you would be hard-pressed to avoid thinking that people with disabilities oppose assisted dying. You would be far…
Death with Dignity and People with Disabilities
June 19, 2015
By Joan Tollifson Much of the opposition to physician-assisted dying comes from disability rights activists who falsely assume that legalizing the right to die poses a danger to them and undermines the value of their lives. Some people with disabilities…