2025 Was a Year of Collective Mourning for Disabled Communities

There’s also the reality that disabled people experience many different forms of grief, from the grief of missing out on an imagined future for some, to the sorrow of losing function, to the anticipatory grief of having a life-limiting condition. It is the grieving that comes as the result of living in a disabled body that copes with more loss and abrupt changes than most… I grieve that as I age in my disabled body, the pain is becoming more apparent, and it is becoming harder and harder to do many things that my disabled body used to do. Medically assisted deaths, some of which are spurred on by a lack of social supports, are rising significantly year after year in Canada; meanwhile the U.K. continues to try to slash the budget of the Department for Work and Pensions, the government agency tasked with dispersing.

Author: John Loeppky

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