Electric EDGE
Web Edition of
The Ragged Edge
July/August 1997

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Web Links of Interest

Give Me Dignity or Give Me Death
For more information about assisted suicide and right-to-die issues, see:
  • The Not Dead Yet page, with its National Heroes Project, "an eleventh hour plan of action ... resisting the legalization of 'mercy killing' ... proposed by Free Hand Press, Inc./Mouth magazine." This page includes an excellent discussion of the issues and many additional Web links.
  • Your Rights Versus Institutionalized Healthcare, a thought-provoking essay on "How to Stay Alive: One Step Ahead of Your Doctor Should the Supreme Court Decide Otherwise" by Dorothy Guellec.
  • Law Journal EXTRA! - The Web Site for Lawyers, frequently updated, which often covers right-to-die issues from a legal perspective.
Christopher Reeve
For more information about Christopher Reeve, see:
  • The Christopher Reeve Page. Although this is primarily a fan page, it contains links to news coverage of his injury.
My Own Private Roosevelt
For more information about FDR and his proposed memorial, see:
  • How to Define a Great Man, Kathi Wolfe's article in the April 27, 1997 Washington Post.
  • The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Commission, where you will find a vast archive of FRD information but, not surprisingly, not a word about his disability. After you visit, you might want to use this page's E-Mail links to tell them what you think about that.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum features more FDR biography and information, including a brief, straightforward discussion of his disability.
Questions of Origin
Although Kenny Fries' publisher hasn't placed information about his book on its Website yet, you'll want to keep checking and maybe leave them a little E-Mail asking why it's not listed.
  • Penguin USA.
More disability-related links
  • ADAPT, American Disabled for Attendant Services Today.
  • Axis Disability Rights Website.
  • COOL LINKS from ACIL, Dayton's Access Center For Independent Living.
  • DisABILITY Information and Resources.
  • Disability Research Resources.
  • Adrienne Rubin Barhydt's excellent page, The Disability Rights Activist.
  • The Gimp Page.
  • LINC ONLINE! - the Live Independently Networking Center of Newton, N.C., a private, non-profit, federally funded Center for Independent Living.
  • National Center for Accessible Media
  • Prosopagnosia" -- Face Blindness.
  • Support Coalition/Dendron's Psychiatric Survivors and Allies Website on human-rights abuse in the mental-health system.
  • Resources for disabled hunters.
  • Three Rivers Free-Net's People with Disabilities page of links to disability-related sites in Southwestern Pennsylvania and around the world.
  • Bill Scarborough's Yellow Dream Machine Home Page -- Disability Rights.
Legal Information, ADA links
  • American Bar Association's Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law.
  • Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center.
  • EDLAW Home Page.
"The Disability Rag"
To order our "Ragged Edge" anthology and back copies of "The Disability Rag":
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