4:16am May 12, 2014

It’s come to my attention…

…that even disability rights groups that oppose euthanasia, don’t want to hear about euthanasia and murder and other abuses happening within the hospice system. Why? Because within their ideology, a perfect, idealized hospice system is necessary in order to be able to say, “Here, here’s a way people can die peacefully at home, you don't need euthanasia for that.”

So because that piece of their ideology is necessary. They are entirely unwilling to look at the ways that killing, and encouraging people who don’t want to die to be “accepting” of their deaths, have become normalized in large parts of the hospice system. This is inconvenient to their ideology so they act like it’s not happening at all.

Which means that disability rights groups basically aren’t stepping up to help anyone who’s willing to blow the whistle on these practices. Which is horrible. What the hell happened, that made disability rights group accept what is both an institution, and a place where death is pushed on people against their will? If it were called anything other than hospice, there’d be an outcry. But hospice is sacred, so if things are going wrong there, if things are built into the damn system that ensure that they’ll go wrong, then those things all have to be swept under the carpet. By the same people who claim to be protecting us against those abuses in other contexts.

Meanwhile disabled people who are witnessing horrible abuses up to and including murder, in that system, have nowhere to turn. Not even our own communities. "Oh, you’re talking about hospice? But hospice is wonderful.“ (headdesk)