Sue Rodriguez's death in 1994, assisted by an anonymous physician,Svend Robinson rung the alarm of Euthanasia ...and it has been a topic of debate ever since...
In all the debates that have ever happened as of now,there have been only two categories who argue against IT...
Type I-The THEISTS, for they consider Euthanasia as a sacrilege on the grounds of the tenets and the dogmas that they have been preached..
They'd argue that if it's not in our hands to grant a life to somebody ,it would be Blasphemous to take somebody's life...and that The Death and The Life, both lie in the hands of almighty...
I'd blatantly want to ask these Theists..
Don't these preachings tell us to find a way to put an end to our sufferings,to let lose, to release.??..The one that we call Moksha...
And what if we have already suffered enough,and what if we already know a way to culminate our sufferings???
Why do we always have to succumb to the fatalism?
In today's world of science (where Craig Venter created artificial Life from a scratch),why can't the church and science go hand in hand?
Type II - The ETHICISTS ,they are the "common man" whose conscience have been parasitized by *The Society*, they follow all the rules, stick to all doctrines and laws religiously, they would argue against euthanasia/assisted suicide on the grounds of ethics, moral values, laws that have already been laid down by the society...
I absolutely agree legalizing Euthanasia would demand a lot...validating the case by getting into the legalities the deepest we can...
BUT Isn't it as important a case as a rape case,a murder case or a divorce case would be.?
I consider this even graver,that somebody's is fighting with the world ,to choose dying,imploring to help him die, to release him of the excruciating pain that he's going through every single second even without committing any crime...
What do you consider a more humane thing to do, to a man who suffers from a terminal illness?
Help the man put an end to his sufferings,if he's really imploring you to ,OR, watch him die little by little every single day?
I'd say it would be more than an ordeal happening to that being,while you act like his garroter...what could be more sacrilegeous than this?
Rodriguez was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and she fought to have a legal right to assisted suicide.Under the Criminal Code of Canada,assisted suicide was punishable by a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.She twice took her cause to the Supreme Court of Canada,but ultimately lost both battles.It was then in 1994 ,she decided to take her own life with the help of Svend Robinson.
Even Socrates chose to drink the goblet of hemlock for he couldn't have lived with the *pain* of *NOT* practicing his philosophic vocation...so he chose Dying with Dignity..
Many proponents advocate the term "voluntary Euthanasia" instead of "assisted suicide" ,for suicide is considered a "sinful act " by the church...
Recent studies also show that the available evidence suggests that the legalisation of physician-assisted suicide might actually decrease the prevalence of involuntary euthanasia.
I'm glad that Assisted-suicide has been legalized in several jurisdictions, including Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and three American states (Oregon, Washington and Montana).
A person suffering from some terminal sickness should be given the right to choose DYING WITHOUT PAIN before death otherwise swallows him...
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