#KateCheney was one of the first people to die under #Oregon’s #DeathWithDignity law in 1999. After her doctor refused #euthanasia, her daughter Erika took her to 3 more doctors: the 4th noted that Erika was “coercive” & that “her choices may be influenced by her family’s wishes” but approved euthanasia anyway. Erika then left her at a nursing home for a week until she requested euthanasia, which was performed on the spot.

The Michigan Law review notes many other legal inconsistencies, systemic lack of data, & other cases of coercion: https://web.archive.org/web/20140123080900/http://www.michiganlawreview.org:80/assets/pdfs/106/8/hendinfoley.pdf

In 2008, a woman named #TamiSawyer moved in with a disabled man named #ThomasMiddleton; within a month she was named his heir and he was euthanised under Dying with Dignity. Two days later she sold his estate and pocketed the money: https://ctmirror.org/2015/03/06/op-ed-assisted-suicide-would-be-fraught-with-problems-and-abuses/

We only know about this because she was convicted of real estate fraud; there are no mechanisms to protect disabled people, nor was the state interested in investigating Middleton’s death.

Our lives have less value than the tax paid on property.

Linda Fleming, the first person to be euthanised in #Washington state, was divorced, bankrupt, and unable to work due to disability, yet her situation presented no “red flags” to the proponents of euthanasia who pushed for her to be euthanised: https://web.archive.org/web/20150701071719/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/us/23suicide.html?_r=0

#UnitedStates #MedicalAbleism #Eugenics