Kia ora and welcome to Diversityworks

Red, over at walkingisoverrated.com  (I’ve wanted to say that “over at” thing for ages) says in a recent post that it was a “shock to me [that] more than half of the respondents of a recent online poll said they’d rather be dead than severely disabled.”

I commented that they are “great stats to have, backs up what I’ve been saying for at least two years. Over half of people fear functional change/loss more than death. That says a lot about the emotionally created mindset behind why we make it so difficult to be disabled. We’d have to change things quite a bit to make it easier than dying, wouldn’t we?”