{"id":2950,"date":"2011-06-03T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2011-06-03T19:35:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T19:35:32","slug":"the_late_dr_dea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2950","title":{"rendered":"The Late Dr. Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Kevorkian died today<\/a>. Back in his heyday when it seemed he was hooking up someone to his suicide machine every other week, Kervorkian had a deeply antagonistic relationship with disability advocates. Many of Kevorkian’s…clients?…had severe disabilities and the disability community accused him of presenting suicide as the only rational alternative to a lifetime of “suffering” with a disability. Kevorkian never did show much interest in dialogue with these critics and couldn’t ever quite seem to comprehend how “disability” and “quality of life” could be used in the same sentence. His work and the media’s fascination with him forced the disability community to articulate a counter-narrative to Kevorkian’s rather explicit assumption that a life with a disability isn’t worth living. That narrative is still frequently marginalized and met with blank stares, but we are becoming more skilled in its telling. Though it may not have been Kevorkian’s intended legacy, he challenged us gimps to articulate our general desire to keep on keeping on, despite life’s struggles and limitations. Perhaps that’s something for which he should be remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Kevorkian died today. Back in his heyday when it seemed he was hooking up someone to his suicide machine every other week, Kervorkian had a deeply antagonistic relationship with disability advocates. Many of Kevorkian’s…clients?…had severe disabilities and the disability community accused him of presenting suicide as the only rational alternative to a lifetime of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-LA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}