In the 20th century, the argument against doctor-assisted suicide cited horror stories of "loved ones" killing someone with a disability for emotional or financial reasons. Being a person with a disability called Friedreich's ataxia (which is like ALS or MS), I was thankful the Canadian health-care industry opposed it.
In the 21st century, some health-care workers care deeply about their patients, but the priority of the large health-care industry itself is not taking care of people, it is to make money for taking care of people and, being a person with a normal mind but a blind, two-thirds deaf, mostly paralyzed resident of a nursing home, I know that nowadays the health-care industry wants to keep my body, barely functioning, merely because it can get money for doing that.
Rawnie Dunn, Burnaby
