🧵 TW: Suicide #MAiD
I can’t tell if my grief is going to drown me with the 10 ft waves that keep washing over me with the #SuicideDue2Pain of my friend who deserved pain meds and every resource needed to cope but was denied by every govt system she sought help from for months.
Or if grief will swallow me whole & suck me into this pit of quicksand as I struggle to explain to a “friend” why I can no longer be friends w/ someone whose defence of assisted suicide is to tell me, a person in a similar sit as my friend, that I can always end my own life…
Just as long as I don’t stand in the way of others who, from their multiple options, think they *may* someday want to use MAiD. Gone are the arguments about compassion, dignity, autonomy and choice. Which have always been a smokescreen and a lie.
Instead my also disabled “friend” answers her own questions as to why #BillC7 is indeed predatory & monstrous. Though not in a way she will or wants to understand.
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It’s hard enough to live in a country where suicide prevention is no longer a given if you’re disabled. Yes this is real bc I am the friend @RabbitRichards is talking about. Whatcha think would happen when you legalize assisted suicide for disabled ppl & we reached out for help?
I just don’t have emotional capacity to explain to someone who supposedly cares abt me why it’s not a matter of believing in MAiD or not. Why when you are deprived of support, financial & otherwise, a singular offer of a ‘supported & peaceful’ death isn’t “compassion” or “mercy.”
It’s cruel. It’s also exploitative, pernicious, ableist coming from a dr, society and govt. It’s eugenics. Period. Full stop. But in this moment, w/ the heaviness in my heart for my friend who also felt her only option in healthcare was med assisted suicide. I just feel betrayed.
I shouldn’t have to defend my humanity and right to life *without* the implicit or explicit suggestion, promotion, coercion that it’s okay to end it bc I am disabled. Not from a friend or anyone. But this is #MAIDinCanada reality now.
And I grieve. I grieve for the disabled lives lost and for the many more disabled people whose lives will be lost.
RIP dear friend
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