| Joy
Palmer A Tribute to
a Hero
Death be not proud. Gone a star
that lights, guides and inspires.......still but from a different
sphere; beyond the threshold.
I'll take back the word 'gone'
for Joy will live in the memory and thoughts of many who agreed
with her as well as those who disagreed. Strong-minded, self-assertive
and gutsy if need be. Ending vivisection isn't a path for
the timorous and faint-hearted. On this path formidable forces
are at the crossroads and on every corner to derail, mislead
and intimidate the activist. The welfare of animals and their
ethical treatment is an integral part of the mission. Joy
pursued all with zest, passion and utmost devotion. I have
been Joy's friend and co-warrior for many years. I'll miss
her, my admiration for her will never fade away. Those who
tread the middle path disagreed with the often uncompromising
stand of Joy Palmer. To each his way; temper and temperament.
Joy, rest in peace with the angels and birds of paradise.
Moneim Fadali, M.D., F.A.C.S.
President, DLRM
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Thank you, Joy
A tribute to Joy, given at her
funeral on 21st May 2007 by another great lady of the anti-vivisection
movement, Cynthia O'Neill, SRN, SCM, QN HV
Thank you Joy. So much you achieved.
Co-founder of Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine.
You put everything, yes everything and more, into the great
cause.
Knowing the fraud and uselessness
of vivisection, causing such damage and death to humans, you
would never ever compromise. This took great courage.
Joy's message and aims of DLRM
were clear - "For the total and immediate abolition
of vivisection on scientific and medical grounds".
A great leader - an inspiration to us all. A true anti-vivisectionist.
"Well done, thou good
and faithful servant"
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Joy Palmer - from Viva!Life
magazine
Issue 35, 11 September 2007
We sadly report the death of Joy
Palmer, founder and director of Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible
Medicine (DLRM) at the age of 86. Always a campaigner, Joy
started the first mother and child organisation in Ireland,
where she was brought up.
Active in the peace and Palestinian
movements, she became a vegan in the 1970s as did her sister
Daphne and daughter Sherry ...and they still are!
Joy's father was a vegetarian and his sister 'Aunt Olive'
opened the first veggie restaurant in Dublin while Joy's brother
Alan opened the Fig Leaf vegetarian restaurant in Earl's Court in the 1950s.
It was not just the cruelty of
vivisection that caused Joy to found DLRM, but the way in
which it hinders medical advances. She was an ardent Viva!
supporter and has asked for donations to be sent to us in
lieu of flowers.
She will be sadly missed for her
tireless enthusiasm, determination and belief in the freedom
of all sentient beings.
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