Comments on: Disaboom Survey Reveals 52 Percent of Americans Would Rather be Dead Than Disabled http://www.whynotrachel.com/2008/07/12/disaboom-survey-reveals-52-percent-of-americans-would-rather-be-dead-than-disabled/ From The Ground Up Thought Sat, 19 May 2012 10:14:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: | The Ultimate Disability Discrimination | Accessibility NZ http://www.whynotrachel.com/2008/07/12/disaboom-survey-reveals-52-percent-of-americans-would-rather-be-dead-than-disabled/#comment-484 | The Ultimate Disability Discrimination | Accessibility NZ Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:02:59 +0000 http://whynotrachel.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-484 [...] so not everyone feels that way. Still, with 52% of the US population who would prefer to be dead than disabled, there is a large segment of the population who would see it as natural that someone with a [...] [...] so not everyone feels that way. Still, with 52% of the US population who would prefer to be dead than disabled, there is a large segment of the population who would see it as natural that someone with a [...]

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]]> By: Rachel http://www.whynotrachel.com/2008/07/12/disaboom-survey-reveals-52-percent-of-americans-would-rather-be-dead-than-disabled/#comment-133 Rachel Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:09:30 +0000 http://whynotrachel.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-133 It makes me so very sad and angry too Sandra, that's why I posted it. I think people are afraid. A person like your sister, is as you said, an active and important member of your family and of society as well. I don't think people relize that if they became disabled they could handle it. They just see that their lifes would change and as they see it from their vantage point, change is bad. Though from the new vantage point of living with a disability people might very well see that life goes on, with all its many pains and gifts. Thanks again for your comments and coming to visit my blog. Rachel It makes me so very sad and angry too Sandra, that’s why I posted it. I think people are afraid. A person like your sister, is as you said, an active and important member of your family and of society as well.

I don’t think people relize that if they became disabled they could handle it. They just see that their lifes would change and as they see it from their vantage point, change is bad.

Though from the new vantage point of living with a disability people might very well see that life goes on, with all its many pains and gifts.

Thanks again for your comments and coming to visit my blog.

Rachel

]]> By: sandra http://www.whynotrachel.com/2008/07/12/disaboom-survey-reveals-52-percent-of-americans-would-rather-be-dead-than-disabled/#comment-132 sandra Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:10:51 +0000 http://whynotrachel.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-132 Hi Rachel (I know your dad from TBE), My sister is severly disabled and no, I can't know what is going on in her head, but, as cruel as it may sound, I can't help it that she is disabled. And whether or not she is disabled, she has a responsibility to me and our parents to be around. To be an active member of our family. And not to give up. I don't see her as a crippled woman. She's a Jewish woman. She's a computer person. She's an older sister. She's many things, including handicapped. And she's had good times and bad times that had nothing to do with Cerebral Palsy. This study saddens me and scares me. I can't take away her CP but I don't want it to torment her that much that she wants to die. There really is no answer. Hi Rachel (I know your dad from TBE),

My sister is severly disabled and no, I can’t know what is going on in her head, but, as cruel as it may sound, I can’t help it that she is disabled. And whether or not she is disabled, she has a responsibility to me and our parents to be around. To be an active member of our family. And not to give up.

I don’t see her as a crippled woman. She’s a Jewish woman. She’s a computer person. She’s an older sister. She’s many things, including handicapped. And she’s had good times and bad times that had nothing to do with Cerebral Palsy.

This study saddens me and scares me. I can’t take away her CP but I don’t want it to torment her that much that she wants to die. There really is no answer.

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