--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> wrote:
> >
> > I find the idea worrying. Someone with depression wanted
> > to visit this clinic, not sure how it turned out but what
> > doctor could kill someone *just* because they wanted to die?
> > Depression is always curable, all it takes is effort and
> > a search for the personal best cure. I don't think it should
> > legal anywhere for someone to be helped to die because they
> > are unhappy, for whatever reason, it's a part of life. Wanting
> > to die because your partner is dead is normal but it aint
> > the end of the world. people do get over it.
> >
> > I think all this is symptomatic of our cultures' alienation
> > from the natural process of dying and mourning. There's
> > a real feeling nowadays that if someone doesn't live a full
> > and happy life until they are 90+ someones gotta be sued.
> > Life aint like that, it's bitch.
> >
> > Having said that, I've watched good friends die long and
> > painful deaths and I think the attitude that we have to suffer
> > til the bitter end is wrong. I wouldn't let my dog suffer like
> > that, why inflict it on people I love? But it's not for the
> > depressed or unhappy, emotional pain goes away. Lying on a
> > table and being injected with a lethal dose of painkillers
> > can't be considered a lifestyle choice can it?
> >
>
> It's painful to see a loved one suffer, painful to watch them die and painful
> to mourn. Each step of goodbye, hoping the end will not come, knowing it
> will, brings us closer to our own mortality. Feeling the kinship of humanity
> and compassion for those bereft of courage at loss, naturally we reach out in
> friendship to fill the void with wise counsel and protection until the tears
> have passed. Choice is just around the corner of now, balancing life and
> death decisions. Knowing we are not alone helps ease the burden of rightly or
> wrongly choosing an unknown. Even so, no one can choose for you. In the end
> you will be alone passing into yet another unknown.
>
Interesting observation RD.
I tend to think it would be returning to where we came from and, that we
might find it familiar.
Years back, I wrote a poem about such feelings and, still think it might have
some merit.
