(July 7, 2013 at 11:00 am)Full Circle Wrote:(July 7, 2013 at 10:48 am)missluckie26 Wrote: Yeh my dad had a passive attempt a couple years back. He's of the mindset that when you get old and aren't any good anymore, you take a walk in the desert. He thought he was dyin because he refuses to go to the doctor (for religious reasoning) and has diabetes and mental illness. So he stopped eating and drinking for a week. Didn't work.
There's a great topic of discussion, euthenasia, which by the way I'm in favor for. I want to be able to say, OK stick the needle in me doc, I'm done here.
I've had this conversation with others recently. Everyone has the ultimate responsibility for their lives. We all have the choice whether we live to see tomorrow. Sadly, for some the reality is that the choice to die is a better option than to continue in a state if constant pain and unrest. (I'm talking more incurable disease and old age here, rather than just depression)
Can we not afford our fellow brothers and sisters a respectable death if we all know the inevitable? I only think it's fair for someone to be able to be at peace with the biggest and last decision they'll ever make to be assisted with a dignified exit.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret is as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
