Sunday, February 25, 2007

Euthanasia - The Solution to Everything

I believe a person should be allowed to choose the time, place, and manner of their own death. I take this a bit further than most others in that I put no restraints on the reasons that a person may have for making this choice.

That means that if a person wants to choose to end their own life because they see the state of the world as being beyond redemption, and their own place in it as being untenable, then they are certainly free, in my opinion, to end their own life.

I try to point out to people that they have this option. That it is available for them to choose. and that I, for one, will not judge them for it. Further I try to make it possible for people to find the information they may need to fulfill their desire of ending their own life peacefully and painlessly.

I do not charge anything for this service. I do not involve myself in the implementation of this service. I am simply the messenger.

As I get further involved in thinking of euthanasia I personally see it as a fundamental solution to many troubles. Not, as you may initially think, a quick end to a personal and temporary problem, but as a universal solution to global problems. Here's why...

As long as someone else, say a government or a church, tells you, and you believe, that you can not or should not end your own life then you are under their control in this most basic of freedoms. Giving up that freedom makes it easier for 'them' to convince you to give up other freedoms until finally you become a slave to their agenda.

In America corporations rule. It is in their interests to keep an employee alive and consuming as long as possible thereby creating markets for goods which might otherwise have no need to be made. Governments encourage this enslavement so that their citizens remain employed or at least controllable by those who do employ them. Churches enslave people...I'm not sure why. Power? Probably.

So, if euthanasia were an accepted practice, a person could choose to end their enslavement quickly and easily and, most importantly, without concern for the harm it might bring to them or their family in the future. Loss of income, poverty, jail, banishment.

Additionally, euthanasia would provide a means for everyone, not just the rich and politically connected, to enrich their family on their death instead of impoverishing them by staying alive.

Now, one must live their life to the fullest extent possible. This will ultimately lead to draining resources and ensuring the future enslavement of their family by making sure that they must remain employed in order to survive. Families do not benefit from supporting a person on life support for 15 years. Only the medical and insurance industries profit from this. (Please note, I do not advocate euthanasia for financial reasons alone, but that is, and should be considered as, one of the valid reasons for considering it.)

Others would still be free to not choose euthanasia. I have no problem with that. Some are meant to be slaves. Freedom to choose should apply to all. Even if by exercising their freedom to choose, in the negative, they in effect choose to remain enslaved.

So, in summary. if a person could end their life without recrimination then the need to stay alive and be employed would end. The need to consume would end. The rape of the planet would not be necessary in order to keep 'improving' the quality of life.

Life is pretty good without two boats gathering dust in the driveway and a two hour commute, for both parents, to a hated job. So why do we think this is an improvement? Answer: because we have been trained to think this way and we have no other way out from it. If we do not do better than the Jones' then we will have fallen behind and our family will suffer for it.

Euthanasia provides another option.

It isn't for everyone, but it should be made available for everyone to choose.

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A Euthanasia Clinic would provide a place in which a Compassionate Law could be implemented.

http://www.EuthanasiaClinic.com

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