A Canadian hospital is slowly starving and abusing a disabled man to death

Meghan Schrader

By Meghan Schrader

Meghan is an instructor at E4 - University of Texas (Austin) and an EPC-USA board member. 

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A hospital in Canada is slowly starving and abusing a disabled man to death. 

Seriously, can someone airlift Roger Foley out of there?

Hospital staff have, of course, offered Roger Foley “MAiD.” It’s not that “MAiD” made the hospital staff abuse Foley, doctors and nursing staff bully disabled people all the time in jurisdictions where “MAiD” is not legal. However, now healthcare staff have a new, lethal implement of structural oppression at their disposal: they have the power to bully Foley into being offed by a state-sanctioned serial killer. This is an example of the disgusting consequences of a movement run by privileged individuals who are willing to subject disabled people to a new implement of degradation and violence; all so they can plan their deaths like they planned where to go to a first tier college. For instance, in “A Designed Death: Where and When the World Allows it, Avovah Wittenberg Cox asserts:

“For Boomers used to planning and controlling many of life’s choices, from when to have children to what kind of milk in their coffee, defining a good death seems like something they may want to discuss with their families – and decide for themselves.”

Roger Foley

An agenda of allowing any and every Boomer to control their deaths implies expanding “MAiD” beyond the terminally ill, and I think this quote aptly illustrates the privilege of most MAiD supporters. If you are a wounded soul whose terminally ill loved one shot themselves in the head and then left a suicide note saying they wished they could have used “MAiD,” then I empathize deeply with you. Of course people who have endured that type of trauma would think “MAiD” is a good idea. However, if you are not a horribly suffering person who is simply willing to sacrifice marginalized people so that you can design a boutique death, then I do not sympathize with you. You want to control your death like you planned when to have your children? I want a house next to the ocean in Fiji.

Maybe some of the proponents who are not suffering horribly and are just willing to sacrifice disabled people so that they can plan their deaths like they planned where to have their weddings should consent to being locked up in a hospital, deprived of food, water and toileting and subjected to bright lighting that hurts their bodies; while bullies stand over their beds urging them to die by assisted suicide. It might help them put some of their current fears about suffering and their demands for autonomy into perspective.

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