"You matter because you are You,
You matter to the last moment of your life,
And will do all we can,
Not only to help you die peacefully,
But also to live until you die"
-Dame Cicely Saunders,
Founder of Hospice
Whose life is it that we are talking about? Is it ours the way it so claimed to be? The bitter truth of life is that though we tend to boast of being the sole owner and regulator of our life, yet we have the least right upon the breaths we take. Neither can we enter this world on our own choice nor can we leave it depending on our will. From the Soviet Gulaz to the Nazi concentration camps or the killing fields of Cambodia, history is evident that the granting of State Legal Authority to kill innocent individuals has had dreadful consequences. Again, there arises the fundamental question about euthanasia ; whether it is a libertarian movement for human freedom and the right of choice or an aggressive drive to exterminate the weak, the old and the different. this question needs to be pondered upon.
How can killing a person be a solution to unanswered cries and unheard woes? It isn't surrendering from the life's battlefield encourage cowardice. Isn't giving up an easy escape? The terminally ill are a class of people who need protection from family, social and economic pressures and who are often vulnerable to such pressures because of chronic pain, depression and effects of medication. Euthanasia is not a solution. Rather it leads way to quit. It violates the humanitarian perspective of life.It drains hope; hope that someday the deceased smile will return, the eyes filled with silent pain will again sparkle with renewed life and the death bed will be bade goodbye.
If it is legalized in the lower income countries, it will be an easy way to silent the deprived ones. Advantage would be taken by illegal medical practitioners. What if a a doctor announces a person having curable prospects to be terminally ill for ransom? The basis of the Hypocratic Oath will trickle down to mere ashes.The society attempts to turn the life-saver physician into a cold-blooded murderer.Human rights will become null and void Is it justified to stop the heart -beats of a defective child ? That day isn't far when a physician prescribing a 'death' medication will be an everyday affair.The right to live will be snatched away from the ones struck by merciless old-age. Patients suffering from AIDS, the differently -abled ones and others with varying disorders will be provoked to kill themselves. It might be used to silent a weak witness in a judicial case.In many parts of the world where women are victimized by chauvinistic attitude, euthanasia will come as a boon to them!
Life is a mysterious miracle. It is to be lived with smiles, suffered with tears and fought with courage. However, no matter how tough it may get quitting is not the solution. Being humane will then be just an affair of the past.
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