I have spina bifida. I walk with crutches and "AFOs", which are leg braces. I make able-bodied folks like most of you uncomfortable just by entering the room. I sit down on a seat at the airport and within seconds, the whole row of ten interconnected chairs is cleared.
The folks at Not Dead Yet, a website about disability advocacy (you can Google it. I WILL NOT link them here), make it their main point to fight tooth and nail against assisted suicide/euthanasia. They are so paranoid about the able-bodied majority wanting to kill us off.
I say it's absolutely cruel to not be allowed expert help in ending one's life if there's no use (and every inconvenience) to living. People are going to kill themselves, even with non-terminal things like SB, anyway. What's sad is not such a person cashing in their chips, but having to do so with the proverbial wire hangar in the alley.
I'm just sorry that before Brittney Maynard (who WAS terminal), I had never even thought of the issue.
The folks at Not Dead Yet, a website about disability advocacy (you can Google it. I WILL NOT link them here), make it their main point to fight tooth and nail against assisted suicide/euthanasia. They are so paranoid about the able-bodied majority wanting to kill us off.
I say it's absolutely cruel to not be allowed expert help in ending one's life if there's no use (and every inconvenience) to living. People are going to kill themselves, even with non-terminal things like SB, anyway. What's sad is not such a person cashing in their chips, but having to do so with the proverbial wire hangar in the alley.
I'm just sorry that before Brittney Maynard (who WAS terminal), I had never even thought of the issue.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
