Wow, she puts it so succinctly. I wish that wasn't from decades of repeating it.
I assume that nondisabled people don't frequently encounter strangers, co-workers, family members saying, "If I were in your shoes I'd kill myself." That was, for me, what changed my thinking on PAS—I'd never heard it before, but I heard it within 24 hours of using a chair for the first time, and I hear it periodically 20 years on.
When I've got my grim on, I think we should advocate for barber-assisted-suicide. We're accustomed to ceding decisions to physicians, who we* hold in high esteem. But empowering barbers with a sedative/morphine combo? Perhaps that might offer an insight into exactly the power games under discussion.
Yes, for real. The problem of a medical system that doesn't know how to help terminal patients by any other metric than days breathing is a real one, but pushing assisted suicide as the answer is just...ignorant to the point of maliciousness.
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Date: 2014-11-03 12:39 am (UTC)I assume that nondisabled people don't frequently encounter strangers, co-workers, family members saying, "If I were in your shoes I'd kill myself." That was, for me, what changed my thinking on PAS—I'd never heard it before, but I heard it within 24 hours of using a chair for the first time, and I hear it periodically 20 years on.
When I've got my grim on, I think we should advocate for barber-assisted-suicide. We're accustomed to ceding decisions to physicians, who we* hold in high esteem. But empowering barbers with a sedative/morphine combo? Perhaps that might offer an insight into exactly the power games under discussion.
* for values of "we" that don't include me.
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Date: 2014-11-03 06:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-03 08:02 am (UTC)