Supporting Assisted Dying Model may Transform Suicide Prevention
Experts discuss radical assisted dying approaches to help suicidal people, highlighting the detrimental effects of existing suicide prevention services.
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Experts discuss radical assisted dying approaches to help suicidal people, highlighting the detrimental effects of existing suicide prevention services.
Some people have the desire to be physically disabled--to be blind, deaf, paralyzed, or an amputee. This is a psychiatric condition called “body integrity identity disorder” (BIID). Now this mental health problem is being labeled "transableism." Today there is an effort to normalize the condition, to promote its "treatment" with disabling surgery, and to turn being "transabled" into an identity, on a par with transgenderism.
Transableism is a relatively new term for what is known as BIID, for “body integrity identity disorder.”
Even francophone witnesses chose not to testify in French. It’s a problem.