MONTREAL, May 16, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet will join Québécers who oppose euthanasia on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at noon on the Plains of Abraham.
TVNDY is a progressive, non-religious project to unite and give voice to the disability opposition to euthanasia, assisted suicide, and other discriminatory end-of-life practices.
According to Hasbrouck, Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet will highlight several points
- People with disabilities are the population most directly affected by assisted suicide and euthanasia.
- Disability discrimination is a major factor behind the push for such laws, and the causes of suicidal feelings among people with disabilities.
- Such laws create a double standard, where non-disabled people who express suicidal feelings are given services to prevent a suicide, while people with disabilities with similar feelings are allowed, even helped to kill themselves.
- Financial and social pressures, including abuse, can drive elders and people with disabilities to suicide.
- Québecers have rejected capital punishment because of the possibility that even one person might be wrongfully convicted and killed.
- Lack of access to palliative care and home-based personal care services controlled by the individual can drive people toward suicide. People with disabilities should not be sacrificed to poor policy choices.
- People already have the right to refuse treatment, make advance directives and appoint a substitute decision maker.
- Until people with disabilities enjoy full safety and equality in all facets of community life, no amount of safeguards can prevent misapplication of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
The event is co-sponsored by Vivre dans la dignité, the Rassemblement Québecois contre l'euthanasie and Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet.
SOURCE: Toujours Vivant - Not Dead Yet
Amy E. Hasbrouck (450-921-3057)
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