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SoulfulMama's avatar

Nursing homes spend $6 per day to feed residents and $60 per day to give them medication. I've done dialysis on people on ventilators, persistent vegetative states, no quality of life. It's all for money. We should ask people when they are 40 if they want feeding tubes when they can no longer talk or recognize people and look unhappy all the time. Do they want to have procedures and appointments when they can no longer move, communicate, or eat. Versus supporting someone to remain at home and let them stop eating when they no longer want to eat.

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Bob Williams-Findlay's avatar

Really appreciate this critique. I only made contact with Marta shortly before her death and I regret not doing so much sooner. I share much of her approach as a disabled Marxist. Currently, I'm writing a critique of the British Disabled People's Movement which declined due to ignoring the basic nature of capitalist social relations in creating and maintaining disablement and disablism. Totally agree with Kevin Gotkin.

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