Heather Firemoon
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I'm distracting myself with things I care about on social media, but fact of the matter is my partner died only just over two months ago. I never even got to refer to them as that here or anywhere else because we were on disability and scared. There were so many messed up things.
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@DecideNow_ACP @AndrewLawton How is that preferable for statistics? We're hiding the actual cause of death for anyone using MAID which means that there is now at least one death due to partial deafness in one ear. Not knowing the numbers means we can't even know about potential issues. So much for safeguards
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@AndrewLawton In Canada, a suicide is listed on the death certificate as the manner of death. The cause will be ie, asphyxiation or toxic drugs. But by choosing to die by MAiD, “MAiD” does not appear anywhere on a death certificate. For posterity-Geneology & stats-MAiD is a preferable death.
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Law professor and MAID advocate says we need to give people with mental illness access to MAID, because otherwise they might commit suicide.
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@TheBreakdownAB I rarely agree with the UCP govt and I'm 100% sure that they're doing this for the wrong reasons, but it is the right move. It makes AB the first govt to come close to meeting the UN recommendations about MAID for disabled people which is currently coercive. Their AISH cuts tho..
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@CleverSafo bubble baths, allergies to soaps...
or sometimes, abuse.
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@MCL_CA @amneetbali It isn't, actually. You just don't see it happening.
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@HFiremoon @amneetbali The number of people starving in capitalist countries is nothing compared to how many people died in Russian gulags.
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@MCL_CA @amneetbali How ethical is it that capitalist countries regularly murder their own people by starvation, denial of medical care, 'assisted death' and repeatedly breaching human rights?
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@amneetbali How ethical is it that socialist governments regularly murder their own people by starvation?
Read some Solzhenitsyn FFS.
Take your power hungry murderous socialist ideology and GTFO.
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Did you know that 1/4 of Ontario’s MAID providers have violated MAID regulations?
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"For someone like me, who isn’t dying but often wants to, I need the law to protect me: from under-resourced systems, from clinicians afraid to talk about suicide and from myself on the days when I am convinced that dying is the answer.
That, to me, is compassion."
James Downs@jamesldowns
@ProfLAppleby @OtherHalfOrg Please see my letter in bjpsych on this: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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MAID is discriminatory and coercive. Per the UN, Canada is in direct violation of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, which it ratified in 2011.
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Disabled people need and deserve the social & economic support to live independent lives
They shouldn’t be forced to rely on abusive caregivers, live in legislated poverty or be institutionalized
Disability is not a moral failing
It’s a minority group you can join at any time
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Gabrielle Peters is the co-founder, with Catherine Frazee, of the Disability Filibuster, a national grassroots initiative
Better dead than disabled? Alberta finally draws the line on MAiD: Gabrielle Peters for Inside Policy | Macdonald-Laurier Institute macdonaldlaurier.ca/better-dead-th…
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@MaskedHottiee @julia_doubleday @eilise I'm saying that it is very common among disabled people. Endometriosis is a disability that often does significant damage by your 30s. It's just that disabled people were invisible until covid let us all see our neighbours & coworkers become disabled in front of us.
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@HFiremoon @julia_doubleday @eilise All of those things are true, but that doesn't mean it's common for people to be forced to retire in their 30s due to medical conditions
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Yall have long covid
Kyle Kringle@SkinnyTuna
is ADHD burnout real or did i just randomly become incapable of hard work overnight
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@MaskedHottiee @julia_doubleday @eilise I had a physical job. Outside of healthcare, women in that age group usually don't. Any one of my health conditions might have been manageable but the combo wasn't - also not that uncommon. Disabled people are less likely to be employed & more likely to stop working earlier.
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@HFiremoon @julia_doubleday @eilise The conditions may be common, but I don't think it's common for 30 somethings to be forced to retire due to medical conditions
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@DTSaskatoon @AOgieglo Maybe we should look at where federal healthcare money has been spent once the province gets it. It isn't healthcare...
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@AOgieglo The federal government has plenty of money for a gun buy back under the guise of public safety.
Although it is a provincial matter, perhaps the feds can send some more money to the provinces for healthcare.
This is happening across Canada.
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You should be upset about this.
Nearly every weekend for the past 2 months this $18M building, which has operating expenses of $18M annually, is sitting empty due to staffing challenges.
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@julia_doubleday @MaskedHottiee @eilise I 'retired' as a 30 something 2 years before covid. The medical conditions that forced me to stop working are pretty common in that age group.
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@MaskedHottiee @eilise Right like so many ppl I know posting about how they’re having to take medical leave from their jobs as 20 and 30 somethings and taking a year+ off work and I’m like I’m so sorry about these fuckass doctors you’re seeing bc nobody I knew did this 10 years ago AT ALL
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@CurrieWindsor @DonaldBestCA Yes, I believe it was "partial hearing loss"
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Ontario doctors are under orders to lie on your death certificate.
Not shade the truth. Lie.
Here it is. Official. In writing. From the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
"The illness, disease or disability leading to the request for MAID is to be recorded as the cause of death. The certificate cannot include any reference to MAID or the medications administered."
Source: CPSO: Medical Certificates of Death in the MAID Context
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@floridagirl68 @LukRamsay @IHateNYT 15 Evil Things Goodwill Has Done (That Aren't Widely Known) | Cracked.com
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thrifting when the clothes at the thrift store weren't all Shein
Dave@GamewithDave
People who actually experienced the 1990s: What is something you miss from that decade that just isn't the same today
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“Ever since some lobbyists…used [the] murder of a disabled child to build support for their cause, arguing that Robert Latimer did the right thing in murdering his 12-year-old daughter Tracy in 1993, disabled people have pleaded with Canadian leaders to listen”: @mssinenomine
Macdonald-Laurier Institute@MLInstitute
“History is jagged. When an exemption to homicide was first carved out of the Criminal Code to allow for MAiD, and then when it was expanded further, disabled people’s rights dropped to a new low in Canada,” writes @mssinenomine for Inside Policy. Read full Inside Policy article here⬇️
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Seeing the universal and well-earned outpouring of love for Stephen Lewis from media and political figures to the outright smearing of his son NDP leader Avi Lewis, who is carrying on the same fight for human rights and climate as his father, is a little jarring.
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@MadameCissy1 @itachikarin @Wake__Up__01 @drterrysimpson Absolutely. I'm not arguing for "healthy foods". Calories are more important than anything when someone can't eat and they should be given any food they want - the more calorie dense the better.
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@HFiremoon @itachikarin @Wake__Up__01 @drterrysimpson Chemo patients are not going to want to eat steak and eggs when they have a mouth full of ulcers and are puking all hours of the day. When a cancer patient asks for caramel flavoured ice cream, that’s what you get them. At that stage calories matter and how they get them doesn’t
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I do love it when non-medical people seem to think giving a patient, who is not eating, any food, because they need calories is bad. But, non physicians think that sick kids will just eat carrots, hummus, steak, or whatever. Sometimes we are just happy with any cancer patient getting any calories in any manner.
Boki X@Wake__Up__01
@drterrysimpson You think giving someone who needs to heal chicken nuggets as fuel bc it's what makes them "happy"? You are a dum fuk and an A hole Nutrition is one of the most important things. The body needs 150 minerals, trace elements, carbs, protein, good fats, and antioxidants to function
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