It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Rita Marker. Please click the link below to read Barbara Lyon's beautiful reflections on Rita's life and work to fight assisted suicide.

"As we consider the future of our society, we must decide: Will we view disability through a lens of inconvenience and burden, or will we embrace every member with equity and respect? The path we champion will fundamentally shape the community we build."

"Despite declining the offer of the [assisted suicide] program, the woman was asked about assisted dying again before undergoing her second mastectomy nine months later and spoken to a third time while recuperating in the recovery room after that procedure." 

"Yes, the slippery slope is very real, although this isn’t even the most apt metaphor. We should think of legalising [assisted suicide] as opening the floodgates to something deeply sinister."

PRAF is a leading national, non-partisan single-issue organization that protects the rights of patients, people with disabilities, older adults, and other historically underrepresented groups from deadly harm and discrimination inherent in assisted suicide laws.

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