Alex Schadenberg Provides Updated Information Regarding Assisted Suicide

The 2023 Colorado assisted suicide report indicates that assisted suicide poison prescriptions and deaths have continued to rise every year since legalization.

Even though the number of assisted suicide deaths is continually increasing, Colorado Governor Gary Polis signed Senate Bill 24-068, on June 5th, to expand [that] State['s] assisted suicide law. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded [its] law.

The Colorado assisted suicide report indicate[s] that in 2023 there were 389 lethal poison prescriptions written, which was up by more than 22% from 318 in 2022, 218 in 2021, and 185 in 2020.

The Colorado report [also] indicate[s] that in 2023, 294 of the lethal poison prescriptions were dispensed, which was up by more than 18% from 249 in 2022, 164 in 2021 and 149 in 2020.

The data seems confusing since Colorado collects information on the number of lethal poison prescriptions that are written, and it collects information on the number of lethal poison prescriptions dispensed[,] but it doesn't collect information on how many people actually died by assisted suicide.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities – Part 1.

By Ian McIntosh, Executive Director, Not Dead Yet, 12/03/25, pictured here.

Today is the UN-recognized International Day of Persons with Disabilities with a theme of fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress.

This year's focus on disability inclusivity as the predicate for social development (including economics, employment, social service systems, etc.) feels practically defiant in view of (and certainly at odds with) several international developments this year regarding legalization and expansion of assisted suicide and euthanasia which, rather than promoting inclusivity, sanction elimination of disabled people from society.

Among them, and hot off the federal government presses, Health Canada just five days ago released the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Aid in Dying in Canada. In it, continued and increasing disturbing trends for nonterminal disabled Canadians showcase anything but a disability inclusive society that is advancing social progress.

Diane Coleman Inducted Into New York State Disability Rights Hall of Fame, Class of 2025

In collaboration with the 2025 New York Association on Independent Living’s (NYAIL) statewide conference, the New York State Independent Living Council (NYSILC) held its sixth New York State Disability Rights Hall of Fame awards ceremony and dinner, and Not Dead Yet’s Founder and CEO, Diane Coleman, [pictured right] was the first of the night to be honored with a posthumous award “For lifelong achievements which positively impact people with disabilities in society.”

For those who couldn’t attend the awards ceremony and dinner, the Patients Rights Action Fund’s (PRAF) Executive Director, Matt Vallière, and NDY’s Executive Director, Ian McIntosh, accepted the award on behalf of Diane Coleman who passed away suddenly, last November 1, 2024.

Please find NDY’s acceptance speech and two more photos below:

Trump takes aim at Somalis as feds prep for Minneapolis operation

(NewsNation) — In its latest immigration crackdown, the Trump administration will head to Minneapolis, targeting Somali immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

The city is home to more than 80,000 people of Somali descent. News of the operation comes as President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against the community, saying he did not want immigrants from Somalia in the U.S. because “they contribute nothing.”

Trump also continued his attacks on Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, [pictured here]  who is of Somali descent, saying during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that Omar is “an incompetent person.”

It also comes as some in the community are under fraud investigations, including allegations that millions of dollars from Minnesota state welfare programs instead went to a terrorist group called al-Shabab in Somalia.

Omar told NewsNation she felt Trump’s comments on the Somali community were “totally irresponsible.”

Minelli Approved the Deaths of 4,200 Men and Women. Then He Killed Himself.

Raimundo Rojas  |   Dec 3, 2025   |  Washington, DC.

The day Ludwig Minelli died, November 29, 2025, he was in the same sterile blue room where he had approved the deaths of over 4,200 men and women.

The founder and main profiteer of Dignitas ingested the poison his organization had perfected, calling it a final victory. It was a chilling climax to a lifetime spent convincing desperate people that the world is better off without them.

Minelli grew up the eldest child of a Swiss house painter, with no signs of personal trauma or a tragic loss pushing him toward advocating for assisted death. He didn’t care for a dying spouse. He didn’t lose a child. No major tragedy molded him. What shaped him was cold ideology, cloaked in the noble language of rights, autonomy, and mercy, but beneath every polished phrase lurked an old, murderous lie: some lives aren’t worth living.

In 1998, Minelli turned his deadly lie into a thriving business, setting up in a quiet residential area on Gloria Street in Zurich. From the start, the bodies started to pile up. He welcomed people with treatable depression, disabled individuals who had spent decades proving their worth, terrified elderly men and women, and even healthy people feeling weary; he asked almost no questions, took their fees, and handed them death in a plastic cup.

Over 4,000 times, he faced suffering and prescribed annihilation.

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul [pictured left] wants to add a requirement that people videotape their requests for physician-assisted deaths, one of several conditions she’s put forward to sign the hotly debated Medical Aid in Dying Act.  

The Democratic governor proposed the amendments to the Legislature late last month, according to two people briefed on the negotiations but not authorized to speak publicly about them. Talks are ongoing, the people said.

The amendments are Hochul’s first foray into the wrenching debate over the topic, which has prompted lawmakers to share personal stories that touch on religious faith, individual liberty and their own experience caring for dying loved ones.

“I hear from a lot of people on that issue,” Hochul told reporters recently. “There are strong views on both sides of the spectrum — intense views on this. And I’m conscious of that, and it’s going to be a very weighty decision on me.”  Hochul is also pushing to create a seven-day waiting period for terminally ill patients who seek life-ending drugs from physicians. Another proposed provision would require all patients who ask doctors to help end their lives to undergo a mental health evaluation by a psychiatrist.