Only in a society that respects, and enables, these choices are atrocities against the disabled truly unthinkable. I for one would be much more accepting of assisted suicide after we have insured access to adequate healthcare and financial ease. I can t live on that. I can t go with that assistance until we ve made sure the person has every reason to live that we are capable of providing. The world to which I am a material witness is a difficult one to love.
Maps render foreign territory, however dark and wide, fathomable.
I mean to make a map. At the UUA s Pickett-Eliot House on Beacon Hill, for instance, in the bathrooms, there s a hook to hang a robe on the back of the door, and then, halfway down at my height there s another one. A place like that, in typical Unitarian fashion, is forward rather than backward. In view of the facilities they have, they ve done extremely well. But you haven t tried to get into the UUA offices at 25 Beacon.