In a message dated 11/29/2000 12:07:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:

> my sister workes in the public schools and in her opinion the generation of
>  kids in middle school now will be the generation that starts putting the
>  "elderly and infirmed" to "sleep."
>
Yes, the elderly and infirmed will be "put out of their misery," and their
"suffering will end."  Who's misery?  Who's suffering?

>  when i take my dirt nap, i do not want it to be because someone thinks i am
>  a inconvienance.

I feel normal. I don't feel infirmed, I am just disabled and this feels
normal to me now. Someone has already suggested that I go into an assisted
living facility, where I don't have to worry about living alone, taking care
of myself, and making meals.  I don't worry about living alone.  I don't
worry about those things.  I worry that people can't see that accessible
accommodations in my home are the answer, not going to an assisted living
facility. I feel bad that some have left me behind.  That's what bothers me
sometimes.  The suggestion was meant with the best intentions, I am sure, but
isn't that just a way to hide me away and forget about me?  Isn't that like
dumping me?

What's going to happen when I get older and maybe have a stroke or something?
 Are my human rights going to be taken away?  Am I going to be allowed to
live?

Sometimes I feel a thousand miles away from my nondisabled peers.  We just
don't think about the same things.

Betty