Please note that I have just noticed a'typo' in this post. Ted's name is Freeman not "....men".
Judith Kelleher
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> Date: 2003/03/03 Mon AM 10:34:52 GMT+13:00
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: NDY Site Update - Singer and Schiavo
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> Hi.
>
> I am a recent subscriber to this list. I am from New Zealand,have a close relative with a severe anoxic TBI and am just beginning my PhD around issues similar to those raised in this case.
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> I recommend the writing of Ted Freemen "The Catastrophe Of Coma" etc. Ted is an Autralian who aws ahead of his time when writing about PVS and the potential horrors of decision making based on convenience to the system.
>
> I also have been forever changed in my thinking by the story of Andrea Ostrum, told in a paper in the Brain Injury journal some years ago. While she was so-called "locked-in", there is much in her story about assumptions made about what may be going on inside someone who is "vegetative"
> Judith Kelleher
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> > Date: 2003/03/03 Mon AM 07:18:48 GMT+13:00
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: NDY Site Update - Singer and Schiavo
> >
> > Belatedly, we've gotten some of our old Singer material up on
> > the NDY website, along with links to disability-related Singer
> > material elsewhere on the web.ý We hope to have more
> > up in the near future. You can access it at:
> >
> > http://www.notdeadyet..org/docs/singer.html
> >
> > Also of possible interest is the online version of the
> > amicus brief just filed in the Terri Schiavo case involving the
> > support NDY and 11 other national disability groups are giving
> > to the legal efforts of Ms Schiavo's parents in their efforts to
> > prevent her court-sanctioned death through starvation and dehydration.
> > In addition to the national groups, the Center on Human Policy signed
> > on, along with the Hospice Patients Alliance, which is a patients' rights
> > group.
> >
> > You'll find the brief at:
> >
> > http://www.notdeadyet.org/docs/schaivobrief.html
> >
> > -Steve-
> >
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