"You can watch only so much of yourself drain away before you look at what is left and say "This is an empty shell"
- Gavin Ewert, suffering from motor neurone disease opted for Euthanasia in September 2006. Initially he was confined to a wheelchair, and needed a ventilator to breathe. When the illness progressed to the stage where he could not swallow his food, he decided to take his life.
"I am tired of the disease but I am not tired of living. I still enjoy life enough that I would like to continue but the thing is that I really cannot.
"If I opt for life then that is choosing to be tortured rather than end this journey and start the next one. I cannot take the risk."
His death by assisted suicide was shown on Sky Real Lives, and has opened up a debate,
I, for one, feel he is wise to have chosen not to inhabit a "living tomb".
May he rest in peace.
I have just heard about it.
ReplyDeleteNDTV mentions Mahatma Gandhi's idea of euthanasia. Well, there is much more to him than we think we know.
Yes, Gandhiji was much ahead of his time...
ReplyDeleteHe is sure to get back in fashion, worldwide, I am sure, his time is coming.
What I like about him is his gentle, but sharp sense of humour.
I read that when a journalist asked him, "What do you think about the Western Civilization?", Gandhiji answered, "That would be a good idea!"
When life becomes a torture, due to medical condition, the individual should be allowed the liberty of ending his life. What would one achieve by denying them their right to end agony?
ReplyDeleteIt poses a problem only when another person decides about mercy killing. That I think should not be allowed by law.