To live or not to live?
Death is a sensitive thing, something no one really likes to think about. But death is as much a part of life as anything else and it deserves consideration. Namely, can man choose death over living or must they just go with the flow?
Suicide and other forms of mercy killings have always been seen as reprehensible behaviors, dishonorable and just down right wrong. Religions invent reasons to avoid such action and society spits out infomercials about how life is precious, but does that really mean anything. Death is inevitable, why does it matter when or how you do the dieing? If life is no longer worth it, why should we not be forced to stay and wait what we all know is coming?
In the case of the terminally ill, whose lives are ones of hospital stays, medication and pain, why must they hold on when they no longer want to fight? To force people to remain in such torturous conditions is wrong on all levels. Death is no great terror; it is simply another phase, the next step.
Who knows if there is some great world beyond this one and who knows if choosing death over life is the deplorable choice we have deemed it currently.
So I ask you, is choosing to leave the suffering of your life behind a terrible choice, especially if you are already dieing???
