For many viewers, watching LIFE AFTER can be an emotionally intense experience. We've compiled some tips and resources to prioritize your mental health before, during, and after viewing the film.
Disability is seldom covered in the media, and is often negatively stereotyped and inappropriately represented. The National Center of Disability and Journalism developed this guide to help journalists cover and communicate about people with disabilities.
Caring Across Generations: Resource Library
Explore this resource library to find support for care & caregiving. It includes resources for care activism online, conversation guides, state-specific guides, reports, video explainers, and playbooks for changing the narrative around care in entertainment & Hollywood.
DREDF: Primer on Assisted Suicide Laws
This brief issue primer includes national medical, disability rights, and other progressive organizations that oppose assisted suicide laws, key objections, articles, and resources. It is for anyone who wants to look deeper, beyond the simplistic mantras of choice and “right to die,” or religion.
Not Dead Yet: Disability Rights Toolkit for Advocacy Against Legalization of Assisted Suicide
This toolkit articulates why disability advocacy groups oppose assisted suicide and outlines ways to educate and organize disability opposition, meet with legislators, testify at hearings, work with the media, conduct direct actions, and build coalitions.
Patients Rights Action Fund: Resources
These resources share information on why assisted suicide legislation is dangerous for disabled people.
Read about AAPD’s work around key health issues for people with disabilities, including: the Affordable Care Act, assisted suicide, access to reproductive health, and law enforcement’s relationship to people with disabilities.