CN: euthanasia

My views on Assisted Suicide are already on the record so I'm just going to link them rather than go deeply into it again.
CN: euthanasia

Essentially - my views changed as I learned more about disability politics. I do believe a person has the right to choose, but *in practice*, *in law*, there are concerns which cannot as yet be surmounted.
CN: euthanasia

There is a huge difference between end-of-life, final days pain management and right-to-die legislation which reinforces the belief that to live a restricted life with care and assistance is to live without 'dignity' and therefore be worse than death.
CN: euthanasia

In a world where survival as a disabled person is already a daily struggle, there are catastrophic implications to the legal alternative to the failure of the state being suicide. Especially when it's welcomed and supported by medics and politicians.
CN: euthanasia

This thread was about the assisted suicide of a disabled woman https://twitter.com/FionaSnp/status/1186849632363659264?s=19
CN: euthanasia

This was a response to a thread about 'dignity' and assisted suicide https://twitter.com/FionaSnp/status/1130364396558016512?s=19
And this subthread followed on. The tweets I was replying to have been deleted but the stats are still there https://twitter.com/FionaSnp/status/1130379584124477440?s=19
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