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As you noted: Hear! Hear! Natasha Kraus At 01:36 PM 10/25/99 -1000, you wrote: >Why do you - and others - assume that the daughter's paralysis had any >part to play in the mother's suicide? The newspaper article said: "Carla >June Hochhalters suicide occurred about six months after her 17-year-old >daughter, Anne Marie, was critically wounded in the April 20 tragedy and >left partially paralyzed. It was not immediately known what other factors >might have contributed to Hochhalters suicide." The suicide is regretable, >but if we agree without protest that disability (one's self or a person >close to you) is sufficient grounds for ending one's life then we are >perpetuating our own dependent, second class, low quality of life position >which others assume we have and assign us to. > >David Pfeiffer > > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >David Pfeiffer, Ph.D. >Resident Scholar >Center on Disability Studies >University of Hawai`i at Manoa >[log in to unmask] >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Center on Disability Studies....maximizing individual >potential by encouraging independence, self-determination, >and full participation in the community. >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Natasha Kirsten Kraus Assistant Professor Department of Sociology 430 Park Hall Box 604140 University at Buffalo-SUNY Buffalo, NY 14260-4140 [log in to unmask] (716)645-2417 x 457 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%