Coercion can be the straw to breaks the camel’s back. When people already in despair, wracked by feelings of uselessness, desperately trying & failing, for reasons far beyond their control, to support their families, unexpectedly find themselves in what’s become known as the Westminster tunnel of death, of wall-to-wall posters. https://x.com/fleurmeston/status/1861052031437291822 All it might take is for a doctor to raise death as a reasonable choice to consider; their power & authority normalising & legitimising it & removing any last shred of hope or fight to live. It’s also worth noting how often doctors get wrong that death is anyway imminent. Coercion can be publicly displayed or hidden behind closed doors, direct or indirect. It can extend to coercing silence. Quite how #ConcealedCoercion can be spotted by medics (who may not even spot the coercive potential of their own actions), judges etc has yet to be explained. Coercion isn’t necessarily by family members after the inheritance or doctors with an eye to treatment budgets. It can be #SocialCoercion #CulturalCoercion – pressure indirectly exerted by normalising choice to die as a supposedly selfless act. These posters are a prime example.

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