RIP: Erin O'Neil

[dewline]

Erin O'Neil died today.

If you were part of the Ottawa, ODSP, Disabled-Rights, CDB-support communities on Twitter, you might have known her as "veganlovebunny".

To me, she was a relatively recent acquaintance there, and her last years were a struggle that finally exhausted her. Environmental sensitivites, autism, lymphatic issues, disability "supports" that weren't doing the work of helping her, abusive fellow tenants, a landlord that wasn't paying attention except to punish her complaints.

She ended herself rather than be evicted from the housing she was barely holding onto in Manor Park.

She deserved better, a longer and kinder life. Friends who weren't so distracted by our own struggles, too.

I never got to meet her in person, and now I never will.

Comments

[devilc]

{{{{Hugs}}}}}

[sabotabby]

Rest in power.

[dewline]

Certainly a hope of many of those who knew her up to now.

[princessofgeeks]

I am so sorry. This is just tragic.

[flamingsword]

May her memory be a revolution.

[dewline]

Amen to that.

[thewayne]

That is tragic! It would be nice to think that her death would shock the people who were unkind to her, but I wouldn't count on it.

[dewline]

Sadly, neither do I.

[bibliofile]

Well hell. <3

[ride_4ever]

Sad awareness.

[dianora]

She had moved to Mastodon. https://mas.to/@veganlovebunny

Sad her last post is... very sad..

She deserved a lot better.