Groups Opposing Active Euthanasia For Robert Wendland :: Euthanasia Physician Assisted Suicide

Groups Opposing Active Euthanasia For Robert Wendland   On phratry 29, 1993, Robert Wendland, then age 42, was involved in a vehicle accident. He was in a coma for 16 months. In January 1995, Mr. Wendland came out of the coma, save he remains severely cognitively impaired. He is paralyzed on the right side. He communicates using a Yes/No communication board. He receives food and fluids through a feeding tube. During rehabilitation, he has been able to do such activities as grasp and release a ball, operate an voltaic wheelchair with a joystick, move himself in a manual wheelchair with his left get to or foot, balance himself momentarily in a standing vomit up while grabbing and pulling thera-putty, draw the letter R, and choose and replace call for color blocks out of several color choices. The Probate Court positive Robert Wendlands wife, Rose, as conservator of his person under the Probate Code. Rose seek authorization from the court to remove the feeding tube, thereb y starving him to death. Roberts obtain (Florence Wendland) and sister (Rebekah Vinson) objected.   Various groups opposed to active euthanasia became involved in the case with amicus briefs   Not all in(p) Yet is a topic grassroots organization of people with disabilities formed in response to the change magnitude popularity of, and laws permitting, physician aided suicide and euthanasia in the United States and near the world. Not unfounded Yets mission is to advocate against legalization of physician tide over suicide and euthanasia, and to bring a disability-rights perspective and awareness of the effects of inequality to the legal and sociological debate around euthanasia and physician back up suicide. Formed in 1996 in Illinois, Not Dead Yet has worked to educate, support, co-ordinate and lead the disability communitys effort to stop the right to die from get a duty to die or a right to kill. patch it is impossible to determine how many people with disabi lities, family members and allies, call themselves members of Not Dead Yet, members have undertaken specific activities in the name of the organization and in support of its mission in at least 30 states. Not Dead Yet has given invited testimony before the U.S. Congress three times, formerly before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and twice before the Constitution Subcommittee of the U.S. stand of Representatives. When Not Dead Yet members attended the long awaited 1999 trial run of Jack Kevorkian (the first after three years of non-prosecution, and scores of assisted suicides of people with non-terminal disabilities) and silently demanded the equal protection of the law, he was convicted.