SubscribeInteresting take on “assisted suicide” as a care prevention option.
This couple were apparently in good health but precisely because they were in good health now was the time of their choosing;
“Mr and Mrs Milner’s daughter Chrissy said her parents had been in good health but did not want to get to a stage where they [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Tag: disability and media
A thank you
I just want to say thank you to everyone for their interest in my small contribution to this discussion about Dancing with the Stars. It will be interesting to see the impact that these discussion on and off air will have on the show.
I want to make one thing clear. It wasn’t the low scores [...]
media behaving badly
When Sol Trujillo accused Australians of being racist; we told him “Adios’ and proceeded to have a debate amongst ourselves nationally about whether we are in fact racist.
When The Chaser aired the skit attempting to humourise the plight of kids with cancer and the charities supporting them; healthy debate (whatever the result) flared up about [...]
A blocked view
This is the first time I’ve heard of disability used as a reason to retain a million dollar view.
The disability community and developers have an uneasy relationship at the best of times usually around useability and function rather than location per se. It is interseting that according to this piece:
At the request of the developer, [...]
Update on media behaving badly
As a follow up from yesterday’s post comes this outlining some of the fall out from “Dancing with the Stars”; including comment from Gerrard and his wife, Heather.
It includes some advice from Gerrard for the judges:
“I know I make a lot of mistakes as a dancer, and I’m happy for Todd and the judges to [...]