RIP: Erin O'Neil
Jul. 19th, 2024 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineErin 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.
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.
