Georgette Smith, Shirley Egan and us
There was little disability activists could do other than watch as the sorry saga of Georgette Smith unfolded. It wasn't the first and it won't be the last.
Smith's request to die burst like a boil onto national consciousness when she sought a court order May 13 to be taken off the ventilator keeping her alive. Like a boil that's soon excised, Smith's May 19 death will disappear below the surface of our consciousness. Until another paralyzed person makes news, once again, for the same thing.