‘Right to die’
UNENDING big and profound agitations as well as depressions in the world today, caused by both old and new social disconcerting maladies, bringing about hopelessness if not bitterness among people – irrespective of race, color and creed – all these are some modern-day phenomena that make a big number of individuals think negatively and thus sadly come up with their likewise markedly negative value systems.
No. There is no aspiration for a the matter of the “Right to Die” came life in “Cloud 9” but neither is there to fore with proper explanation and a realistic hope of the reign of peace justification. It is something that is and the regime of justice. So it is that seen as the pairing of the “Right to every now and then, there come to Live.” fore questionable ideas, pursuant The arguments can thus be errant desires and designs. summed: If someone has a right to
Human and civil rights one after life, it fo lows that the same must also another attributed to these and have the right to death. those individuals are thought off, Just as living is a choice, so too is formally listed down and officially dying an option. There are times when affirmed. Different countries have life is so hard to keep but so liberating and subscribe to different Bills of to do away with. Thus it is that both Rights with different natures and living and dying are considered as classifications, implications and a matter of the ultimate free and consequences. Even the United deliberate decision of the person Nations have their well- drawn – concerned. How does one answer compound and complex – Universal a l these? Bi l of Rights or something the like. Whereas no one gives life to himself,
What is interesting, if not in fact the same as we l has no right to take it perplexing, is that up to these times, away. So it is that as no one owns his there seems to be no Bi l of Obligations life, the same neither has the right to that is duly drawn and accordingly get rid of it – which is suicide. promulgated. So it is that there are Furthermore, suicide – the public ra lies held here and there, one taking of one’s life be this direct or after another, claiming, defending, and indirect i.e., be this by oneself (Direct promoting rights. But one has sti l to Suicide) or through the assistance see any ra ly at a l, at any time and in any of someone else (Assisted Suicide) place for the recognition, acceptance – is intrinsically evil because it is and fulfi lment of obligations. doing away with something that is
And so it is that quite recently, intrinsically good, i.e., life.
Lastly, it is not true that death ends everything. Yes, everything here and now but what about hereafter and beyond?
What is understandable and allowable is the following: When someone for whatever cause or reason loses his health and strength, he clinically becomes dead in the sense that the same is living but a vegetable life, those standing in his name are ethically and morally allowed to have the extraordinary means injected, appended to and/or inserted in the individual concerned accordingly removed in order to allow him to die with dignity – his eventual natural death thus being medically certain after all.
There is nothing here about the “Right to Die” but the blessing to die with dignity and in peace./
PN