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People Who Use Wheelchairs Don’t Actually Want to Kill Themselves

David Bekhour challenges the underlying and unquestioned assumption in the film ‘Me Before You’, that someone with a spinal injury and using a wheelchair will unquestionably find life too difficult and want to end it all. “People in wheelchairs don’t actually want to kill themselves”, but films such as this perpetuate the antiquated and dangerous idea that the lives of disabled people “are somehow less worth living”.

Available online at: http://medium.com/@OptimisticGrin/people-who-use-wheelchairs-dont-actually-want-to-kill-themselves-d76493596eb6#.z276ob8mt