Through early morning fog I see | HBR Talk 408

"There's not a pause button on disability. You don't become less disabled because the government decides they want to take austerity measures." The title is the opening line of the M*A*S*H theme. The song's actual name is "Suicide Is Painless." Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks, Mike Stevenson, Richard the Lionhearted and Brian, on the UK assisted dying bill arriving in the same year as cuts to PIP and disability support. Also: what happens when a painkiller you've taken for thirty years is withdrawn and nothing replaces it, why pensioners and the disabled end up fighting each other over one budget line, the supply chain that decides whether your medication exists this month, what a newspaper headline about people with learning disabilities not reaching sixty-five actually measured, and the windowless vans that used to pull up outside German homes to collect a disabled relative. "We're living under a tyranny of bastards who tell us they have the technology to detect whether we're using a fan or a television." "Once you come to terms with what you've done, then what you've done is the worst thing that can ever be done. So you just have to keep inventing this forever to stop yourself getting there." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online