Labour says feeling like a burden is a reason for assisted suicide – while making disabled people feel like burdens
by bottish
Labour says feeling like a burden is a reason for assisted suicide – while making disabled people feel like burdens
by bottish
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> Labour had the gall to say there is a ‘moral’ case for cuts.
~ [Disabled people slam Labour plan to slash benefits](https://socialistworker.co.uk/labour/disabled-people-slam-labour-plan-to-slash-benefits/)
Boring
While I agree with it in principle, I increasingly feel we’d need a different society for assisted suicide to be good in fact. People should be able to *live* and *die* in dignity.
Can’t we just repurpose all the phone phone boxes into suicide booths and let adults make their own choices
Good lord, misinformation to the highest degree – No, they didn’t.
A cross party committee on the bill rejected an amendment that would outlaw “feeling like a burden” as reasoning for assisted dying.
The committee rejected it as the bill is written very explicitly about what reasons are justified for assisted dying. The amendment was laughably vague, impossible to write into law and was already covered by the bill’s content.
As a disabled person myself, I’m so fed up of the intentional disinformation campaign using disabled people as a weapon and “Gotcha” amendment requests designed to discredit the bill.
Honestly if I had the prospect of spending £2000 a week on my end of life care. Money I had spent all my life saving only to hand to a fucking nursing home to eek my life out a few miserable months or an easy exit pill
I would be chomping those pills like smarties
Sometimes hideous pain or other symptoms mixed with a system who is terrified of making people dependent on anything other than anti depressants is what drives people to want to end it (even though they also have awful side effects and are difficult to stop or change).
Also, when you’re unable to get out very much or look after yourself in various ways, it’s not just that you feel like a burden, it is *humiliating* and feels degrading and lonely.
this is exactly what i worried about after seeing canada do it with MAID.
cutting specialist healthcare. cutting disability benefits. opening-up euthanasia. expanding eligibility for euthanasia.
labour kept saying they’d institute programmes to tackle the barriers to work. before doing any of that, they’re doing cuts.
they promised to protect those who can’t ever work no matter what, and now are facing high cuts.
If you get old enough politicians are a burden.. say around 25 – 30 ish range.
As such I suggest people over 25 should be able to vote on when a politician should be assisted with suicide.
They represent the popular will after all.
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