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There's No Cure for Gretchen Lowe: A Mother's Day Card From Alice

"My daughter is a person. She’s not a chinning bar for me to build my character with. She doesn’t have cerebral palsy in order to teach me a lesson." There's No Cure for Gretchen Lowe: A Mother's Day Card From Alice #CripLit #MothersDay

“My daughter is a person. She’s not a chinning bar for me to build my character with. She doesn’t have cerebral palsy in order to teach me a lesson.” Alice’s schoolteacher handwriting greeted Gretchen in the stack of mail that evening. Oh Alice, Gretchen snorted pleasurably. I couldn’t have picked a better card myself. A six-pack of baby angels were attempting to fly carrying a colossal banner…

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Mr Ableism Proposes to Dispose of Miss Cripple Using the Sarco Death Pod

Mr Ableism Proposes to Dispose of Miss Cripple Using the Sarco Death Pod #Assisted

deathstyles of the rich & abled, MALE-PATTERN BS, REGENCY CRIP LIT It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a neurodegenerative disease must be in want of an early death. My dear Miss Cripple, Mr Abled’s proposal so enraged her that she could only reply, “You first, sir” when he presented her with a  Sarco Death Pod of betrothal. Madam, in vain I have struggled. It…

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Crips Are Dying to Save You Money With Easy Weeknight Euthanasia Policy

A tangy Aussie death culture and tools like the Sarco Death Pod are all you need for easy, elegant, and classy institution-quality deaths you can afford to put on a weekly rotation. #AssistedSuicide #parody

deathstyles of the rich & abled, end-of-life merch AS SEEN ON NOT DEAD YET! [Editor’s Note: The article below does cut off abruptly. While it’s true that we couldn’t afford the editing to help it continue, this in no way implies that the cut-off was anything but the article’s choice to avoid the indignity of ending “like that.”] Image Description: An excerpt from one of Cost Illustrated’s…

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I Want Them to Want Me Because I Will Need Them to Need Me But If That’s Not Going to Work, I Want a Lawyer.

Every time Gretchen saw the DNR forms on her desk at home, a wave of resentment rose. How did she know what it was like to use a feeding tube? Or a ventilator? Or have minimal brain function, for god’s sake? It was like asking an eight year-old to sign up for – or against – puberty. Choice was such bullshit. It wasn’t really her choice at all. The problem wasn’t too much extraordinary medical…