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Better Off Dead? is a documentary on assisted suicide written and presented by disability rights activist Liz Carr, which was broadcast on BBC One in May 2024. During the documentary, she advocates against the legalisation of assisted suicide in the United Kingdom due to concerns for its implications for disabled people. The programme received ...
Elizabeth Anne Carr (born 21 April 1972) is an English actress, comedian, broadcaster and international disability rights activist.She is known for portraying the role of Clarissa Mullery in the BBC crime drama Silent Witness (2013–2020), and also for being a campaigner for disabled rights, and fronting the BBC documentary Better Off Dead?
The Brooke Ellison Story premiered in 2004, based on Ellison's 2002 memoir Miracles Happen: One Mother, One Daughter, One Journey. The television film was directed by Christopher Reeve, the star of Superman, who himself had quadriplegia. Ellison was portrayed by Vanessa Marano as a child and Lacey Chabert as a teenager. It is also notable for ...
The Pennsylvania parents of a 21-year-old blind and deaf man with cerebral palsy who died in September after being starved for months have been charged in connection to his death, authorities ...
Alex Spencer's son Declan - who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy - died last year at the age of 24, and she admits she has still not gone a day without crying. "I think society has a misconception ...
Mattie Stepanek first learned about Jimmy Carter when he was just 6 years old. While most kids his age might not be interested in a former U.S. president, Mattie was different. "He said, 'Mommy ...
On November 19, 2018, the Special Books by Special Kids YouTube channel reached 1 million subscribers. [5] He crisscrossed the country interviewing disabled children to give them, as ABC News put it, "an opportunity to be seen and accepted." As a result, Ulmer has created more than 500 videos of those interviews. [6]
“That’s nearly 17,000 people dying from prescription opiate overdoses every year. And more than 400,000 go to an emergency room for that reason.” Clinics that dispensed painkillers proliferated with only the loosest of safeguards, until a recent coordinated federal-state crackdown crushed many of the so-called “pill mills.”