Friday 6 March 2015

Euthanasia, what about it?

And again, it is the people without suffering and without actually being in the shoes of people like that woman with persistent 24 hour ringing in her ear like "nails on chalkboard" who had to suffer 24/7 that say her wish to die and stop her suffering is "absolutely outrageous." 

Who is to say that ..." allowing killing as an acceptable answer to many causes of suffering, whether terminal or chronic disease, disability, mental illness, or existential despair.”...is not actually wrong?? but is a right (both literally and figuratively)?? 


Not all people had the luck to be born "perfect". Some may suffer from immeasurable pain (and this could be mentally, such as depression or existential despair as cited) which makes it so much harder for them to have a normal life. What gives YOU (the person that is living a normal life) the right to tell those who are suffering what to do with their lives? 


If a disability is making someone incapable of making decisions of his own, making him suffer, unable to cope in the world, isn't it his family's choice whether to let him continue his life? This is the same family that raised him, gave him the chance to live, to grow...because otherwise, even in a natural setting, he would still die. If such a person is really suffering, wouldn't death be a better end result than your selfish want to keep him with you. 


And then, if children, very young babies, are still not even conscious and self-aware but are known to be disabled in such a way that their future holds nothing but grief, prejudice, pain and torture in life, isn't it the right of the parent (that same parent that gave life to the child in the first place) to decide to end her child's suffering? Again, if that child would have been born an animal, he would have probably been abandoned by his mother or eaten very quickly after. 


The possibility of euthanasia is giving the choice in the hands of who deserves it rather than taking it from them by the selfish people that are busy living a "normal" life, arguing whether or not it is ok to give the right to a suffering person to end his life. Euthanasia is an act of altruism not an act of cowardice when done correctly. 


If you tell me that Euthanasia will cause problems in situations where killing oneself (such as depression in teenagers) could have been avoided, then the problem is not euthanasia itself but the society which created that scenario where the child is depressed in the first place.




Euthanasia is giving the right (and almost the last word) to the person to end his life in light of his society rather in the shadow of it. It is like society giving its last recognition to that person who itself (the society) had destroyed in the first place. 

Without euthanasia, suicide would be frowned upon as something that is unnatural, yet suicide was the cause of that society itself, further amplifying the fact that we live in a selfish, self-centred egoistic society that only thinks what WE ourselves do is right and whatever decision people take is wrong. Again, this is only so because we are selfish and are not living in other people's shoes.

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