NotDeadYetAotearoa

Disabled people opposing pro-euthanasia law from a disability rights platform

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

@StewartLundNZ Dear Seaney has had delusions of importance for such a long time.

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

@JoelMacManus That's an optimistic thought I can enjoy greatly.

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

@Dracopi Damn! I, my 3 older sisters, and my mum (b 1914) all went to Phillipstown school. A fellow celebrant was the last headmaster. A good space.

[Leonie Herx @LeonieHerx]

“…palliative care is about living, joy, fun, thinking about your legacy and working with a team to get on top of the big challenges. It’s only a little bit about dying. Let’s call it assisted living.”
Great piece on palliative care by @ProfMarkTaubert

[Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman]

Is assisted dying a treatment? This question is not just interesting philosophically - it has important practical implications in terms of clinical practice and law.

New BMJ Opinion by Prof Gareth Owen, Prof @Capacitylaw and me.

Free link https://t.co/Ibb7DCf6Ro

[mel still wants a free 🇵🇸 @redfresds]

@AlexanderRaikin she smiled inappropriately through that entire commentary. just a blatant psychopath delighting in her power over the life and death of vulnerable people. she turns my stomach.

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

If screaming truth at power
Is what we’re meant to do
Then Janey no one did it
As pure and loud as you
Simultaneously spiky
And grandiloquent
Your words will echo on
And Trump is still a cunt

[Gregg Beratan @GreggBeratan]

Devastated to hear that @ndycoleman has died. Diane was an amazing person who I was incredibly lucky to call a friend. The Disability Community has lost one of our greats. Rest in Power Diane you will be missed.

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

@GreggBeratan @ndycoleman Oh no, how very very sad. Vale Diane. You were such a gem and encouragement to me from NZ, and to other disabled people all over the world.

[Our duty of care UK @OurDutyOfCare]

‘They lived in the Netherlands… Their doctors agreed that #euthanasia was the only acceptable option left for them, because… “Autism Spectrum Disorder is incurable”, and so is intellectual disability, so there really was no prospect of improvement.’
https://t.co/0mFWymzgOD

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

We appear to be so incredibly focussed on choice for an individual that we forget collective rights- the glue for how societies run and don't head to self-obsessed ruination.

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

“My death, my choice” doesn’t let us off the hook as society. We have to decide: do we ensure people have support to live decently? Or do we collectively decide that’s too complicated/expensive and usher them gently towards an early death?” Txs @andrewphil https://t.co/H6mOpnIgzK

[Kevin Yuill @historykev]

Yes but according to BMJ's poll, 70% of palliative medicine doctors continue to oppose legalising #assistedsuicide/#assisteddying. Might they know something that you don't?

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

@historykev Ah Durkheim- so reliably gloomy in his truth-telling

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

@theAliceRoberts OK. But when your choice is backed by laws that put my life at risk, what then. To be quite blunt, you still have a responsibility to your fellow humans that does not involve putting them up for the death dealers to coerce.

[Kevin Yuill @historykev]

"Yet every day in 2022, on average, Canadian physicians and nurses ended the lives of more than 36 people. It is now quadruple the official suicide rate." The prospect for the UK? Every British MP must read this interview with Alexander Raikin. https://t.co/Ap6MQ5nZLL

[Leonie Herx @LeonieHerx]

@AnhedoniaOakley @TrudoLemmens @AlexanderRaikin I have had a patient report to me that maid was raised with them - unsolicited - 6 times in one hospital admission. Even after they told the team to stop raising it as they would never want that. Many patients have reported to me they feel badgered and harassed to consider maid.

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

Coming to NZ next? Death dealers who call it choice would be happy about it.

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

There are few more obscene things than being asked about euthanasia just prior to a mastectomy operation!

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

Another indictment of Canada's #MAID: patient offered #euthanasia when going for mastectomy “The wheels of support turn too slow; wheels of MAID too fast....in a society that considers itself progressive.” comments @AlexanderRaikin @LeonieHerx & myself https://t.co/YaSdSU0RiB

[NotDeadYetAotearoa @NDY_NZ]

Cannot be repeated too many times.

[Annie @toady]

Said it before and will keep saying it. As a disabled person, I would much prefer the promise of assisted living than the threat of assisted dying. #BetterOffDead

[Our duty of care UK @OurDutyOfCare]

✍🏻 ‘Withholding or withdrawing futile treatments is not and never has been… “assisted dying” [which] is the modern euphemism for physician-#assistedsuicide and #euthanasia, both forms of medicalised killing.’
https://t.co/3pTe4L1cFl