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We need your help to stop disabled people being coerced into assisted suicide in the UK

Can you imagine dying by suicide, just because you weren’t receiving the support and services you needed to make life work well for you? Can you imagine the implict pressure of a government-sanctioned suicide - to protect the public purse? “I’d rather die than be disabled like you” is a shocking thing to hear from a stranger, but most visibly disabled people have heard this. And it’s this attitude – that living as a disabled person would be intolerable – that contributes to an idea that legalising assisted suicide is a generous and caring thing to do. The next reading of the assisted suicide bill is just weeks away. If we don’t act now, we risk irreversible harm. We need your help if we’re to continue to oppose it .  As disabled people, we know that it is not being disabled that makes life hard so much as the world being cruel or inaccessible. Other people’s negative attitudes of us are the biggest problem. Going into 2025, disabled people in the UK are struggling. We make up two-t...

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