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,
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
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?
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.
margaret the community of those with a disability need to proclaim this very right, the right to a life, over everything else its about living.
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