The Irish HSE as the organ of death

Who kills in Ireland?   the thief? the robber? the murderer? the paedophile? the insane? your mother? father? brother? sister? your husband? boyfriend? wife? Lover?

Anyone can be a murderer.

Murder in the criminal sense is killing of the body. extinguishing life . to stop the breathing. It is devastating and the annihilation extends to all who knows the victim. The loss kills the soul, the pain kills hope. criminal murder is rightly punished. if the perpetrator is caught.

But what of 'death-making', 'death-promoting', 'death-wish' . Pernicious actions to facilitate the wrongful death of another. Either quickly or slowly.

'death-making' is not just killing of the body, it is annihilating living. it is prevention of living, it is freezing of hope, joy, enthusiasm , it is imprisonment , confining expectations, dreams, all that LIVING means.

Living is not just about breathing or physically existing. LIVING is exciting, happy-filled moments that most who are well, are able to have.

Those of us who are sick or disabled are NOT allowed LIVING.

Allowed? oh yes, when unwell, sick, disabled, old we need permission to LIVE and its simply NOT given.

We have NO permission to LIVE.

Not allowed through the front door - the BACK leads to DEATH of who we are - human, citizen, 

 

Once you become sick all expectations of LIVING are supposed to be dropped. Its unreasonable to have hopes, dreams, ideas, creativity, LIVE.

And the organ of DEATH in Ireland is the HSE, supported by the Government - the State . 'The Health Service Executive' .  These entities profess to WANT us to live whilst curtailing, restricting, denying LIFE-giving help.

The government and HSE killing us with cuts and neglect and refusal of proper care and INDEPENDENT LIVING

 

We Crips, Sickees, Oldies all know what we need. NEED. but our voices no longer count. Others decide what's best for us. others have power and control OVER us. Once sick, once disabled, once old;
 surrender all power and control, hand in your citizenship...surrender everything...you don't have RIGHTS, nor POWER, nor CONTROL.

 what we 'need' is reframed by the HSE as 'wants'.

We want a Personal assistant (PA) but its NOT a 'need' they say.
We WANT independent living, but its not a NEED they say.

They are wrong and deviously, death making wrong.

We NEED PA's to live independently

 

we NEED independent living to thrive, live and enjoy.

going swimming with your walking stick is LIVING

 



HSE and government say we NEED home care support - we say we NEED PA support. these two mechanisms are NOT the same. the former restricts and maintains power and control by the provider over the recipient.

The latter, a PA - frees and lets the recipient hold the power and control. The latter is INDEPENDENT LIVING, the former is imprisonment in the home. You will be fed, washed, dressed. You will be clean. but you won't be LIVING.

The government and HSE are into 'death-making'. that death making that denies and shortens your life, and/or (its usually both) death making that kills your dreams and hopes and LIVING.

The crap second hand wheelchair given by the HSE to a woman with a neuro-muscular degenerative disease - DEATH-MAKING provision 

If we disabled, sick, old people are not very, very careful we will accept the lesser HSE given path of death-making rather than LIVING.

Incontinent pads given by the HSE community nurse  to a woman who has a neuro-muscular disease and who needs a PA to take her quickly to a toilet not an incontinent pad she must wee and shit in until home...  and who may I ask will help her 'clean up' once home?

 

Improvements grants to the home are helpful but beware...the real reason for them is to empty hospital beds and free up nursing homes, both in short supply. Its not about your LIVING. not really.

Home Care is NOT about LIVING but only about feeding, washing, dressing so that you are nice and clean, fed and watered,  in your now easily accessible home-prison.


We seek LIFE, we seek LIVING....and ALL it means.
Not death, or death making, or anything that imprisons or dis-empowers us.

We seek POWER and CONTROL over our own lives and THAT is something neither the STATE nor the HSE will 'allow'.

LIVING is NOT their agenda...DEATH-MAKING is.

Euthanasia is all around me

Euthanasia

is all

around

me

I see it in peoples eyes, hearts , mind when they see this old, decrepit CRIP.  That sickly, sweet, 'feel sorry for you - but aren't you brave ' look of pity and patronisation. 'Why would you WANT to live - in a wheelchair' look. The look that says, 'you are NOT like ME - poor YOU' .  You are 'other' and 'other' is 'not NORMAL'.  Poor, poor you for that wretched wheelchair, body, crippled, disabled CRIP you inhabit. Let me free you - Euthansia.

I hear it in Varadkar's statement that he will lead for those who 'get up early', the non-crips, who actually WORK, produce, slave for this money making country. Your crippledom is not productive. you TAKE the freebie benefits, you have high needs, you are expensive, and you DO NOTHING to get these freebies so hey, I can't be giving freebies to CRIPS who are NOT productive.

I feel it in my heart as my GP fails to fight my corner wondering if the 'waiting room' of Euthansia - the nursing home is better for me. No Margaret you MUST accept your crippledom, pain, distress and NOT expect care in the independent community. You NO longer deserve that independence, your own home, your life, your LIVING.

I know it as the HSE refuse to support my LIVING , but rather gloats at saving money and hastening my death by passive Euthanasia.  The sort of way they have of blaming you - the CRIP - for their hardship as they face YOUR resistance, fighting, arguing for Independent living. "I come to tell you YOU do not deserve Independent living. You can't HAVE independent living. you are a CRIP, leaching monies from the state, Got it, have you GOT IT Margaret?" 

They'd rather

Kill me

put me in a nursing home

deprive me of Independent Living

Make me suffer

deny life

than pay one penny towards keeping my old, crip body, ME alive.

But here I say loudly

I WILL fight

I WILL LIVE

I WILL WIN

Why?

Because I am 'The Crip with a whip' and I'm NOT for killing. And....Ha! There are TWO of us!  The 'Serial Complainers' Strike again!   We will NOT be cowed.

We ARE 'The CRIPS WITH THE WHIPS' ...