Grave Matters
:: May 1st, 2018::
THE DISTANT VOICES made an appearance outside the Court of Appeal on Tuesday 1st May, to protest Noel Conway’s continued efforts, with DIGNITY IN DYING, to change the law on assisted suicide.
USING A POP-UP GRAVEYARD, DV hoped to expose the myths, lies and propaganda used by DIGNITY IN DYING to bring a dangerous and unnecessary change to all our lives, the danger of legalising euthanasia. Dignity in Dying’s campaign is based on fear and ignorance.
Distant Voices: brings you the truth about assisted suicide.
Mr Noel Conway, who had suffered with Motor Neurone disease, had stated that he felt ‘entombed’ by his illness. He died in June 2021.
Previous adventures
DISTANT VOICES exist because of the very sad death of Daisy Healy who was only 9 years old. She went to the hospital with a treatable tooth infection and never because she looked different and had different needs. Little Daisy was just one of many victims who made their way into MENCAP'S Death by Indifference report.
I took her story to the FOURTH PLINTH to perform for an hour, as a part of Antony Gormley͛s One & Other, in 2009. Over the years since I and the rest of The Distant Voices have tried to give a voice to the unheard. How do you show a wound? Is the question we ask again and again in performance and our installations.
From 'I'm dancing on the Inside' (2009), a performance piece outside Parliament, by our multi-talented group of young disabled and non-disabled people. To Billboard Bomshell (2010), a national billboard campaign asking the question 'what's the cost of euthanasia?
