Watching Death

If I go through with it, I die as I must as some point. If I don’t go through with it, my choice is essentially to suffer and to inflict suffering on my family and then die.” That’s the voice of a man who killed himself and allowed a film crew to record the act so that it could be aired on television throughout Europe—which it was. He had a crippling disease and was tired of suffering and though my heart broke when I heard the story and though I’m sure the pain was unbearable—this broadcast was a travesty. Look, if you want to privately do the unthinkable—that’s your choice. I don’t support your decision but I support your right to have it. The moment a person brings others into the act: family, doctors, movie crews, is when choice is replaced by propaganda. Sure he was suffering, that’s a part of the human condition. But, to do this in the open creates permissiveness by the masses. And, since mankind loves to evolve, once clinics, doctors, insurance and acceptance enters the mix what do you think the next logical step will be?

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