I AM AGAINST EUTHANASIA

I am against euthanasia, and drugs used for it like Valabarb. However I wasn't always against euthanasia. I used to think that elderly people who've gone through a lot of suffering deserved to preserve their dignity in dying, even if it meant dying beyond their time. Such used to be also my thoughts given that “their time (to die)” is really their time anymore, owing to the wonders and freaks of medical science advancement.

While euthanasia is an induced death, and a speeded exit from this world, medical science (that you encounter in hospitals and clinics), or Medi-Care, serves to do the exact opposite – its prerogative is to have a person live till he is EVEN incapable of being artificially sustained.

Medi-Care, is equally debate-able. Daniel James, 23, of Britain who was paralysed from a rugby accident lived to have to try to kill himself the second and third time before resorting to Valabarb – no thanks to Medi-care which did not leave him to die.

The Vatican and many activists lobby against Euthanasia because it is “playing God” to decide when one dies. Yet, why does Medi-Care go un-objected for “playing God” in letting the terminally wounded and ill, live?

Medi-Care's argument perhaps is in that somewhere down the road, some doctor from somewhere in the world with the help of some doctor from some other part in the world will be able to come together and give a total turnaround solution that would enable the near dead to be fully alive. Present day examples might include highly advanced prosthetic limbs that operate on the body's micro-currents that enable an amputee to resume his regular activities. The obvious assumption, is, that people in dire straits can afford the wait.

Medi-Care's posture is that a person should not be left to die so long he or she has the will to live. By the same token, why doesn't euthanasia receive the same treatment. Moreover these days, a hospital's medical team would resuscitate and do the required surgeries to revive the ghastly near-dead found on the road whether he happened to be there, or that he chose to be. They also put an elderly person with multiple-organ-failure on life support whether or not he will ever be capable to live without it.

Yet, the reason why I disapprove of euthanasia lies in the fact that life is a gift, and many still do not feel that it is so because they are negative. Some could be born out of wedlock and abandoned, some could be born to a pair of incapable parents, some could be born to an over-bearing family, while some were spoiled with every comfort from a young age – all developing negativity and intolerance for life. Positive people pick themselves up and have a good stretch and a laugh after they trip and fall. Negative people wallow in self-pity and strike out at their “hard life” and people around them. Positive people resent every additional second they are warded in hospital following an accident, and probably do get discharged in half-time because science has proven that positivity energizes and repairs the body on a cellular level. Negative people relish every new day they are warded in hospital and the concern of all their visitors who fear this person is really going to die.

Nick Vujicic, a limb-less motivational speaker, of http://www.livingwithoutlimbs.org has transformed many lives to be in tune with the positivity note. Yet, people who avert themselves from help continue to go down that negative path. Some day, they might hear of the positive note, but what if it comes no sooner than a mishap.

As a positive person who needed no assistance in wheeling myself out from my ward, to crutch-walking to a nearby shopping centre for a normal person's lunch, I would let Medi-Care do everything they can for me so long I will once again resume regular life. While life is a gift, life is also a choice. But so long one breathes, he can develop the choice to live, and see a reason worth living for. So long there is life around me, there I shall be.