Those Who Cannot Move or Swallow or Bathe or Breathe or Speak Independently Know that the Proposition that Severe Physical Incapacity Strips Life of Value, Dignity and Purpose Is Both False and Dangerous. Our Very Survival Depends Upon Your Knowing It Too.

A person with disabilities replies respectfully to a person who committed suicide with assistance at the Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas  and who wrote a letter advocating for assisted sucide to be legalized in his homeland of Canada:

…a vital social ecology is gravely threatened by policies that accept uncritically the proposition that severe physical incapacity strips life of value, dignity and purpose.”

Thanks, Rhonda Wiebe, for sharing this on  Facebook.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/03/30/a_respectful_postscript_to_edward_hungs_endoflife_letter.html