I
hope the lead story on sky news this morning will help put the issue
of euthanasia on a higher agenda. Its scandalous that people have
no choice when it comes to ending their lives, when life itself
involves constant choices. It is galling that the principal opposition
for this comes from all the cult members, who believe that mere
humans should tolerate whatever shit happens, all so they can dance
on a cloud, and worship a figure who only had a rough few hours
for all eternity. On sky news this morning, eamonn holmes asked
an anti euthanasia campaigner, just why humans should be treated
worse than sick cats and dogs, to which he indignantly huffed that
humans should not be placed in the same category as cats and dogs.
Given the depths that humans can sink to, this is a gross insult..........to
cats and dogs.
Why
should this option only be open to those who can afford to get to
Switzerland with facilitating family members? What happens if you
are unable to travel, broke and isolated as so many people here
are. There is a huge industry based around sick people, be they
from physiotherapists, medical people, drugs companies, caregivers
etc, and the cynical side of me questions their motives.
Euthanasia
is never going to eradicate suffering or disability, but we are
not going to turn into some uncaring, maniacal society if we allow
people another option different to the current one of living on
no matter what state you're in. Yes life is precious sometimes,
but the question for me is whether there would have been any fuss,
if this guy, like so many others, had died a natural death after
years of humiliating dependency. I believe in life, just not life
at all costs.