I could feel the chords inside me strike a tone when the thought crossed my mind. When the true meaning caught my attention; i completely disagreed. I wanted to scream out that this did not make sense, i was shocked by the natural acceptance of the fact by people around me.
We are given life by the power of creation. But it is definitely not a human act to create life. nothing can explain this, neither science nor biology.
So when did we get the rights for destruction? Let that be for mercy or otherwise.
I think mercy killing is not acceptable. We have no rights to take lives of individuals, even if they are suffering hell and can see death everyday.
I believe every incident in life has a reason and is governed by the deeds of that person in life. If he has to suffer as close to death then thats how his karma is. Who are we to control his death at a point of time.
There are just two things in life beyond human control which is creation and destruction. Any effort to change this does not make much sense. We can work around it, close to it, but never control it.
'Mercy Killing' is not a Taboo to be broken. Its an unethical practise that needs more attention and thought.
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Im Sorry to say: i oppose your view on this topic. yes just because someone has no control on the creation they way it could be, why should be some one concious, and utilise his sence of mind, to kill themselves? why whats wrong? every human has dignity of life, and has all possible freedom to act, who are we to impose whats good for them, may it be their stupidity or their intelligence, they are who they are, we can offer some views, maximum, but the choice is their. if it hurts to their near and dear, thats not their problem, and in your words, no one can give company in creation nor destruction!
well, i do know that the majority thinks the way you do, but somehow i am unable to fathom the reality of deciding someone's death.
I believe in karma, which means every pain or happiness you experience is propotional to your deeds, so it just means that the person has to undergo that pain in life or in journey to death, its just another way of life.
U are bound to disagree, so do the whole host of others whom i kno!
I think what you say is true to the extent that it has been the way the world around us looks at this.People are not ready to accept the karma of his/her's. I also feel this is more so coz' not everyone is aware, forget about awareness, they are just not ready to accept the fact that there is something which is beyond our control- I pity them. Whatever a person does/will do, it all goes with his acts/deeds. End of the day, I just hope people would get more wise enough that they can understand the fact of Karma and move on with life.I read somewhere about the comparison of Life and Death to MOMENTS in life. Each and every moment in life will have its birth and death.As soon as a particular moment passes by, its dead and there's always a new moment to be born. All moments cant be the happiest, and if there was only happiness/goodness around, we would have failed to recognize its value for sure.So, if THIS is there, then THAT should also be there. I guess u know wat THIS and THAT means here.
Thanks for the kind of topic chosen to post.
Wow! Thanks for agreeing.. i find very less people with the same view about this issue!
neways, its just a personal opinion about things and also about how you form perceptions about issues in your life! so, individuals can definitely differ in that.
Thanks again for droping in and letting me know your thoughts.
Hey read your post today,
Here is my take. I have had kidney failure, gone in for a transplant and have had kidney failure again and need to go in for another transplant. I interact with people facing adverse situations regularly and you know what i have learnt...the suicide rate amongst chronically ill patients is far lower than normal people. These people know the value of life. They really know how important life is. The mercy killing issue is raised by loved ones who are unable to bear looking at their loved ones suffer. So its the loved ones who chose to do this. The desire is not unethical, its human. The emotion of love makes you feel tremendous pain of the other soul. Does that give them the right to take a life..well its should be a personal choice. You might not like it....but that again can be attributed to your law of karma. If a mother is meant to go through the pain of putting her own child to death...then she will.
Just my thoughts...Karthik Ananth(YT)
Karthik,
This was just a splash of thought when i had to wait and think about this issue.
I mean, i have no real time experience in this issue nor have i met people this way. Infact may be your right,its the loved ones doing this for the others they love. There is no evil intentions involved. But the whole fact of deciding to seize a life from existence is something not fathomable to my senses.
Hey, i truly respect your feelings in this issue.
Thanks for dropping in and letting me kno what you thnk, really gets me grow to respect opinions.
Take care man!
karma! it could have been his karma that his death should be through mercy killing.. this topic cannot be explained away through karma!
personally, i am for mercy killing. my reasons are based on what eastern mysticism says about consciousness. they say that in normal human beings consciousness has identified itself with the body (thats what each of us do), and thats the reason we are in the mess of arguing for or against mercy killing.
At a higher plane of understanding we may come to realize that things are how they ought to be and dont need to be argued.
i would say: my view of mercy killing would vary with the context. I could argue both for and against it under different circumstances.
Again, another view point to justify mercy killing would be sex.
I mean, we as humans choose to have sex and create life (most of them i suppose). "Family Planning" - the phrase itself comes to show that we consciously indulge in the choice to create life.
This being said, mercy killing makes sense too. If we can choose to create life, we should allow ourselves the choice to cause death too; atleast out of love.
I realize we are out for a very controversial topic. Infact the term euthanasia itself is know for its notorious history. I did not know that i just hold an opinion in the minority, and ofcourse people hold their opinions for reasons self known and self explained very largely influenzed by their surroundings and how they react to it.
I understand when anonymous says that he could argue both for an against, the very practcality of this issue is so.
Sankar, im not sure about the anology with sex. thats a totally different thing all together and i am not able to draw lines here!!
And again to all of you, thank you for letting me kno what you thnk and how it could differ from mine!
Interesting views you have got.
I think, its easier said than done.. I feel so sorry when I see somebody dead and deciding to take out a life is not that easy, though it might be a help for the sufferer, but the emotions behind that is countless.. I fail to favour or win the argument here :-)
As an anonymous comment suggested, Karma is by no means a right way to justify anything one is going through at any stage of life.
@ Priya :
I believe in karma, which means every pain or happiness you experience is propotional to your deeds, so it just means that the person has to undergo that pain in life or in journey to death, its just another way of life.
---- What will you tell an activist who went in jail for no reason but dirty politics? Is that his bad/good Karma? And should he go through all the pain or fight back?
Mercy killing according to me is not ethically wrong, if the decision has been taken with patient's consent. Same is true in cases, when a person is on life support system and there's no chances of his living (also for cases of brain death)
I have personally seen some old people, who has lots of physical problems, and their situation is no better than a living dead-body. I believe they would prefer mercy-killing than their pitiful situation.
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