A disabled Canadian man who was ready to be euthanised because he didn’t want to choose between death and homelessness has celebrated his ‘deathaversary’ – and says that the only reason he’s alive today is because people raised enough money to improve his financial situation.
Amir Farsoud opened up about how easy it was for him to be found eligible for the assisted death programme – even though he was only looking at the option because of his dire housing
A heartbroken father claims Martha’s Rule, which grants hospital patients’ relatives the right to a second medical opinion, could have saved his son’s life.
Balram Patel died at St Thomas’ Hospital in London in August last year from a build-up of fluid that flooded his lungs.
The 30-year-old had multiple disabilities and suffered from six conditions, including rare ones which affected his heart and lung, as well as liver cancer. His illnesses saw him spend weeks as an inpatient at
A disabled man has revealed he is ‘just like everyone else’ when it comes to sexual urges as he opens up about his sex life.
Rhys Bowler, 34, is the focus of documentary Sex, Me and Disability on Channel 4 – and candidly reveals he has explored threesomes, paid for escorts and even once fell out of bed during the act.
Rhys has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DND) – a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness, meaning he must use a
Three Tory councillors are facing calls to resign for making ‘abhorrent’ comments about disabled children – with one asking if the rise in cases was down to there being ‘something in the water’.
Warwickshire county councillors Brian Hammersley, Jeff Morgan, and Claire Golby are coming under intense pressure to stand down with a clip of the council meeting going viral and incensing viewers.
Mr Hammersley bizarrely asked if the rise in cases of disabled children in the county was because
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A Spanish troupe of dwarf bullfighters have taken their act to France after their home country banned such shows on the grounds that they encouraged mockery of disabled people.
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A Texas woman is accused of burying her deceased disabled teenage son and not informing authorities he had died.
The Lago Vista Police Department said Veronica Marie Soriano, 34, is charged with second-degree felony tampering with or fabricating physical evidence related to a human corpse, FOX Austin reported. She was terminated from her position in the Lago Vista Public Works Department after the arrest warrant was issued.
In March, Child Protective Services and police officers were sent to Soriano’s home
Disabled astronauts-in-training have completed a zero-gravity flight 25,000ft above Earth to help understand how spacesuits and space vessels can be made more accessible.
The crew of 14, who have mobility, vision and hearing difficulties, experienced weightlessness and carried out a number of tests to see what could be done to improve accessibility.
The group, who were from five different countries, including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Spain and the US, was made up of scientists, engineers and doctors.
The groundbreaking trip, organised
A mother has hit back at a stranger told her that her disabled daughter would be of ‘not use to society’ because she will ‘never be able to work’, saying she ‘shines in ways that others can’t.’
Dr Alison Pearson, of Exeter, is mother to 11-year-old Isabel, who has an extremely rare condition called Edwards Syndrome.
Edwards Syndrome, also known as trisomy 18, is a genetic condition with varying symptoms and degrees of severity, but in Isabel’s case means she
It is a photo that should shame travel industry bosses. A disabled woman left abandoned in an empty plane cabin. The bleak image, which surfaced this month on Twitter, has since been shared thousands of times and published by most national news websites.
I know the woman in the picture well: Victoria Brignell, a well-respected producer at BBC Radio 4 and friend of mine.
Victoria, who is paralysed from the neck down and a wheelchair user, had arrived back at
