If you’ve ever seen the Guidelines for Blog Submissions, you may have noticed that it was missing a critical piece of information. It invited readers to submit a synopsis of 2-3 sentences along with a potential date for when the post might be ready for review. It included the usual disclaimers about the editor potentially requesting supporting facts and sources, the writer sharing copyrights, and the editor having decision-making authority to decide whether and when to publish the post. It even provided a link to FEN Principles to be considered while writing your potential post.
Take a moment to review the above. What’s missing?
If you said “an email address to use when submitting my idea,” you win.
We’ve now corrected that oversight, and we’re taking this opportunity to officially invite you to submit your ideas for a blog post to fenblogeditor@gmail.com. Any topic that is directly or indirectly related to the right to die will be considered.
Also, we want to make you aware of an online discussion on September 30, 2020, from 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Central time. It’s called, “Hot Topics: Cool Talk – Physician-Assisted Suicide.” Free registration.
Here’s a synopsis:
Medical Aid in Dying is currently legal in ten jurisdiction in the United States: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington. Efforts are underway in many other states to enact similar laws. Join us in this extended edition of our Hot Topics: Cool Talk event series for a spirited but civil conversation about such laws between two advocates who take opposing views on this issue.
Speaking against physician-assisted suicide will be John B. Kelly, Director of Second Thoughts MA: Disability Rights Advocates Against Assisted Suicide and New England Regional Director of Not Dead Yet.
Speaking in support of physician-assisted suicide will be Thaddeus M. Pope, Director of the Health Law Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, co-author of The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, and author of the Medical Futility Blog. Thaddeus was also a featured speaker at FEN’s 2016 “Dying in the Americas” conference at Lake Las Vegas.
You can follow Thaddeus at the Medical Futility Blog.
