The daylong conference featured speakers who talked about topics including bio-ethics and contemporary medicine.
In 2010, William J. Peace was critically ill with a badly infected wound. Doctors told him he would be bed-bound for at least six months, maybe a year. But, they said, the wound might never heal. He might never be able to sit in his wheelchair or work again. Then they said the words that Peace said people with disabilities hear too often, “we can make you comfortable.”
They said it was his choice – he could stay on his current treatment track and risk being dependent on other people for the rest of his life, or he could stop all treatment and die comfortably. Peace chose to live.
Alexander Williams, a graduate student from Ghana, has managed to overcome the obstacles inherent to being blind.
Alexander Williams was always a curious child. One day, his curiosity got him into trouble.
At age 12, Williams was hit in the right eye by a stray bullet. Warring factions in the part of Liberia where he lived for the first 12 years of his life were fighting over port access to the harbor when his house got caught in the crossfire.