Pages tagged "Liz Carr"
Liz Carr has a message for Tasmanians
May 13, 2017
UK actress, comedian and disability advocate, Liz Carr was in Victoria, Australia, recently with her musical comedy: Assisted Suicide: The Musical. Liz took time out to send a very clear message to the people of Tasmania about euthanasia and assisted suicide.The Tasmanian Parliament will debate the latest bill, the euphemistically titled: Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2016, on the 24th of May.
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An empty chair, a missing Premier - a poignant metaphor
Apr 10, 2017
by Paul Russell: British Actress, Comedian, broadcaster, Liz Carr, known internationally for her work opposing assisted suicide as a disability campaigner as well as her role in the BBC forensics drama, Silent Witness, has been in Melbourne, Australia for the last few weeks with her show: Assisted Suicide: The Musical.Part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Liz's show is incredibly funny as it is poignant. Simply put; it is a great night out designed to make people think about the issue of assisted suicide. Pegged by Liz as a 'Ted Talk with show tunes' the show is a rollicking feast of songs in the great tradition of show tunes interspersed with Liz talking to the audience about her experiences and concerns about assisted suicide.
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Liz Carr: address to Victorian Parliament on assisted suicide
Mar 26, 2017
British actress, comedian, broadcaster and disability activist, Liz Carr is in Melbourne with her show: Assisted Suicide: The Musical. This is an edited transcript of her address to Victorian Parliamentarians who will likely debate assisted suicide later this year. I don't come at this from a religious point of view. I'm not coming here to tell you what to do.I'm telling you what I believe and how it worked in the UK, because in the UK, in 2015, the Rob Marris Assisted Dying Bill that was defeated in the House of Commons.
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Actor Liz Carr 'assisted suicide nerd' talks about Assisted Suicide: The Musical
Jan 19, 2017
Disabled activist, comedian and actor Liz Carr talks about her show 'Assisted Suicide: The Musical' Assisted Suicide: The Musical is set for a season in Melbourne in March 2017 (follow links below for details and to book your tickets.)By Alice Saville first published at the Timeout websitePosted: Tuesday January 17 2017
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Liz Carr triumphs in Assisted Suicide: The Musical
Dec 12, 2016
No, it's not a typo and April 1 is a long ways off! UK Actress, Comedian, Broadcaster, star of the BBC's Silent Witness program and disability activist, Liz Carr has combined her considerable talents to create a thought-provoking and rollicking musical about assisted suicide. This article first appeared in CNA Daily News under the title: In new musical, disability rights activist tackles assisted suicide. London, England, Nov 27, 2016 / 03:48 pm (CNA).- Physician-assisted suicide has been a subject of controversy for several years, but Liz Carr is taking the issue somewhere it has never been before: the musical theatre.Carr, a disabilities activist, comedian and actress, created a production entitled Assisted Suicide: the Musical, which has been staged at various English theatres this month. The musical is aimed at drawing critical attention to the downfalls of physician-assisted suicide, particularly its effect on marginalizing the disabled."I wanted to use musical theatre to look at this difficult subject with the lightness and the kind of heightened realism of musical theatre," she said in a video interview with Unlimited, an initiative for disabled artists.
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Legalising assisted dying is dangerous for disabled people. Not compassionate
Sep 15, 2016
By Liz Carr (Article first appeared on The Guardian website) If I said I wanted to die, the press, celebrities and the public would support my choice, seeing it as rational and understandable. Hell, they would probably set up a go-fund-me campaign to help me make it happen.Yet when a healthy, non-disabled person wants to kill themself it's seen as a tragedy, and support and prevention tools are provided. If nothing else convinces me that to legalise assisted suicide is not a safe option for many of us then this does. Suicide is not seen as socially desirable - so why is assisted suicide seen as compassionate when it's for ill or disabled people?
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UK Actress, Liz Carr, speaks out against assisted suicide
Aug 18, 2015
By Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Liz Carr is an actress and disability campaigner in the UK. Carr is a spokesperson for Not Dead Yet UKITV news published an article on August 14 by Liz Carr. She explains that she is not religious and she is not "anti-choice," but she works with Not Dead Yet to oppose the legalization of assisted suicide. She explains:
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Disabled people assemble mass lobby to urge MPs to reject assisted suicide bill
Jul 16, 2015
This report from Peter Saunders' UK blog: Disabled people descended on Westminster today (14th July) in droves to lobby MPs on Rob Marris's Assisted Dying (no 2) Bill.Marris wants to give adults who are terminally ill and mentally competent the 'right' to have assistance to kill themselves using lethal drugs on the say-so of two doctors and one high court judge. The bill is due its second reading on 11 September.
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Liz Carr: not so silent witness
Dec 04, 2014
On International Day of People with Disability, Hannah Dunleavy speaks to writer, actress and funny woman Liz Carr about Silent Witness, the Right to Die and the perceived value of disabled people in the UK. This article forst appeared in The Standard Issue Magazine on the 3rd of December. There's a point during our interview, when Liz Carr talks about what her teenage self thought her life might be and what her life actually is now.It's not a saccharine or punch the sky moment; it just is. She lives independently, in London, she's got a partner, she's on the telly, she travels, she's happy.
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