Thread by @BrvHrt09

🧵TW: #MAID, Suicide

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It often hits me like thunderbolt or a punch to the throat when I’ve called suicide prevention lines or my therapist again questions whether she needs to invoke the Mental Health Act, call the cops & have me admitted to the psych ward against my will…

That none of these ppl have the right or moral authority in a country w #AssistedSuicide to prevent me from unaliving myself. I’m totally against the use of law enforcement in mental health crises. For the most part I’m against involuntary admission too. But it goes beyond that.

I’m beginning to wonder, and I assure you that once mental illness becomes a qualifier for assisted suicide many others will too. What exactly is the pt of #SuicidePrevention? What’s the pt of therapy? What’s the pt of voluntary admission? Yea I know the right and proper answers.

But I’m putting voice to something that will surely rise up in the minds of more than just me when living at the bottom of a dark hole. If the state & the law, society & culture, media & medical establishment tell me suicide is a reasonable response to disability & mental illness

I’m telling you, #MAIDinCanada undermines everything. It undermines me when I’m alone with my thoughts. It undermines the encouraging and loving voice of people who care about me. It undermines the voice of mental health professionals who are genuinely trying to help me.

You simply can’t tell disabled & mentally ill folks they’d be better off dead, that you support their “choice” to die with a drs note by enshrining assisted suicide in law & expect *the law itself* not to have an impact. For C7 to not undermine mental health & helping professions

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