I have always been fond of music, especially when I’m feeling down. Now, I don’t think there’s enough popular songs about disability and how we struggle each day. But I stumbled across a song the other day that, while it’s not about disability, I’ve been listening to quite often when I feel like I failed somehow. When all that’s happening is really just me struggling and making it through another day, for better or for worse, I like to remind myself that I am perfectly incomplete, but I am good the way I am. I hope that maybe it helps you too.
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And yet if you express a desire for a$$i$t£d su!c!d£ the hypocrites always say “No, yOuR LiFE is tOO pReCIouS.”
i mean as a chronically ill creature i push against assisted suicide because its used to coerce disabled people into killing themselves in lieu of care (just look at what kkkanda is doing). should be focusing efforts on pushing for care and support for disabled people, not genocide. people are literally being told “if youre unhappy with the care theres always MAID (assisted suicide)” and thats so not okay, and neither is the silent genocide of just not providing care at all. murder disguised as medical care is bad, actually.
I don’t know how it is where you are, but in the UK the disabled are already being genocided through starvation and homelessness after having their benefits wrongfully stopped. Since they’re killing us anyway, I’d rather it be quick and painless.
Not in kanada. Maid is offered far more than requested and is pushed on the poor and disabled instead of benefits/support as a way of freeing up healthcare spaces and saving money. Living is the best revenge.
I don’t want to live in pain, poverty and anguish just to get revenge on someone who doesn’t know or care that I exist.