Partially sighted stroke and cancer patient, learning to walk again, going through months of foot surgeries. Fighting a disability benefit appeal. I won my last appeal just 2 years ago and am now going through yet another one. All I want is peaceful, painless assisted suicide.
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0·7 days agoThis bit " Are we doing everything to make sure people in the city know how to access this critical care?" particularly pisses me off. He’s implying that it’s the family’s own fault that this happened, that there is all the help needed out there, the family just didn’t access it. Never mind that they’d asked the authorities for help twice and didn’t receive any.
It reminds me of in the UK whenever a disabled person has their benefits stopped and starves to death, the news reports are always full of victim blaming, saying that there’s so much help out there, the disabled person just didn’t access it. When, actually I know from experience, there is nowhere enough help and whatever authorities you contact just refer you back and forth to each other.
It seems most countries just have the appearance of help in place so that people who are doing alright can sleep at night, imagining that there is help available for the less fortunate, when there really isn’t.
0·13 days agoI’m biologically female, and I’ve had the same issue. I once had an elderly male acquaintance start loudly discussing my sexuality in a crowded cafe, announcing to the room that I must be a lesbian since I didn’t have a romantic partner. He went on and on about it until everyone in the cafe was looking at me and laughing.
Some of us would welcome a nuke.