Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
your #3 does not apply to the Greens, right?
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Russell Brown,
So do I. Only wish it had been easier for her to talk with people living with conditions like incontinence, using personal care services, etc, to reassure her about those aspects. Bigger things to be afraid of than that.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I actually respect their craft. Working with a QC in supporting a friend against a big govt department showed me lots.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
it kind of implies that those who do live with what others consider to be "unbearable humiliation", are somehow less...
bloody lawyers
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to ,
Lecretia is not asking for her illness to be treated. It is fatal and she knows that. There is no "treating".
This is about who has the power to decide where the boundary between life and death sits. Until now, the law has set that boundary very conservatively in favour of preserving society's interest in people not removing themselves from society over personal preferences about how their life ends.
In this court case, we see the relationships between individual personalites and social stereotypes about disability.
How far do we bend social norms to fit personal drives and vice versa?
If one person is terrified of people helping her go to the toilet, is that enough to set the boundary between life and death there? If one person reckons the boundary lies at death via skydiving for him, how many other people do we bind to that level of adventure?
We all die eventually. Disability is normal before that, including incontinence and having someone else wipe your bottom. I've personally seen people negotiate their dignity in those situations better than most of us can imagine.
Is that enough to beckon in the risk of people deciding they are a burden? Glad I am not that judge.
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We will see more stories like counselling service Relationships Aotearoa being forced to close down as the govt's new contracting approach rolls out. Yay, Budget.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to ,
it's an argument that individual interests are more important than societal ones. We have had 3 decades of government based on the same belief.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
She said how terrible it was and it would be better to hurry it up.
in her case, now is good
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Green party OIA reveals Misery of Health has spent $400k on lawyers against the Spencers so far.
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The description of incontinence as "unbearable" caught my ear too. Fear of disability is not a reason for help dying, and it does not reflect well on someone who cites it in court.
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