Neither incident prompted national soul- searching about the need for a system of dignified attendant services in this nation. The disability rights movement has not yet been able to refocus the debate. It's hardly been able to nudge it. They imagine themselves hooked to tubes, old, frail, at the end of life. If these, through physical debility, are taken away . . .
People fear, rightly, that if they become disabled they'll have no choice in how they live.
This is not a right to die issue. It's a disability rights issue. But society doesn't see that. Disability rights is not fashionable. The right to die is.