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Access to Services Changes Desire to Die |
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In an interview with Wesley Smith (National Review, USA, Oct 23rd 03) Diane Coleman of Not Dead Yet commented on the front-page coverage of the Humbert story in the New York Times, which she said was "consistent with the paper's longstanding editorial policy that pretty much says 'better dead than disabled'. Yet when 200 people, mostly motorised wheelchair users, recently endured the hardships of a 2-week march from Philadelphia to the US Congress demanding home care services and freedom from nursing homes, the Times did not bother to cover it." The preferred attitude, as Rita Marker once said, is "Let them take poison."
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