This topic came up awhile ago while I was having a conversation with a friend of mine and both of us have a different opinion on it. While he is 100 percent on getting 'Euthanasia' if he ever gets any kind of disease which are incurable and I am just going to enjoy the rest of my life with my love ones and family.'Euthanasia' ; mercy killing or assisted suicide.
Suicide has been and always would be a taboo to the society but on the contrary euthanasia gives a person who is suffering a chance to have a painless and easy death. Nevertheless, euthanasia is just sugar coated word to replace suicide. The difference is that suicide is a crime and euthanasia is a legalize death. No matter how well phrased it is death is just death and is there a difference between death and legalize death?
A friend of mine said that euthanasia could prepare us for the loss of someone close to us but how could we prepare ourselves for the worst when we already know what is coming. Loss is still a loss and the process of grieving to healing and to remembering is so important. There is no way to prepare oneself to accept that someone who is important and has always been with us from the beginning of our life journey is dying and just to be okay with it.
While we are laughing and crying over our boring life over here, there is someone out there that are desperately trying just to live and pass the day. If one day I was diagnosed with deadly cancer and I wouldn't live for much longer would I opt for euthanasia? Nah, I won't. I would rather live my life as fully as possible. Make a wish list and cross each of it out and spent all those time that missed over the year with my love ones and friends.
Is it not worth living if life is full of ups and downs? Is it not worth living if you already knew that there would only be suffering? Namely because of those ups and downs and all those suffering that motivate people to strives for better life. With a mountain in front of us telling us that we couldn't do it, that people would brake those mountain. To give up just because I had cancer or incurable disease, I couldn't do that. i would rather hang on and when times is right I go as peacefully as I could.
Both euthanasia and suicide impact towards the family member is very surreal and hard. No matter how we phrased it, it is still a loss and a loss in a family is like a perfect family picture been torn over.
Each have their opinion regarding life and how to live it but I just wish that none of those who are around me would opt for this as from the beginning of our life death is already waiting for us; the only difference is that we live our life fully or instead being too scared of death that we invite it to us.
Just remember that you are not alone. Imagine the person who you love so much opt for euthanasia or suicide what kind of respond would you give and how it would effect you.
I am thankful that I am still alive and I am loving this life I am living.
Be courageous and be kind.
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