by
Maxi » Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:05 pm
at the risk of repeating myself,as,i feel,i have written of this life-changing event in 2001,which shaped my opinions,firmed-up my,allready life-affirming stance on such matters,and,sadly,added to my belief in the cynicle,often-twisted logic of our species.before,i will re-cap.
on september 12th 2001,a close freind,overlooked by his gp,was rushed to hospital,to cut to it,he was given one month to live,cancer took him,he went on october 7th.i saw him fade,day by day.
his last day haunts me still.
i visited him that sunday morning on the ward,he was doped to the eyeballs on morphine.
a syringe the size of a bike pump was astride a mashine.
the nurse told me the mashine,not her,was time-releasing the morphine which would ease the mans pain,with the side effect of ceaseing organ function,or,put-simply:"Death".
the nurse,felt,she played no part in hastening his death,no,the "Mashine" did it.
i cant really write the words which i think about that attitude of detatchment,denial,etc.
yes,my freind was,maybe,very near the end,in-pain,all that.
but,with uncanny accuracy the doctor could predict his date of demise.the "Mashine",in easing the pain,killed him.
my point is simple,regardless of how any of us feel re-assisted suicide,for Gods sake,lets not be hypocrites.
Lets be open,up front,as a society,every single day such "Mashines" end lives.
you can try to twist it,but,truth is,its euthanasia,pure and simple,here,now,happening every day.
the rank hypocracy of loading the moral conscience of the thing onto a time-release mashine is staggering in its cynisism,that has shaped my thinking ever since.
I was allways pro-life,against euthanasia,but i add to this my utter disgust at the fact we dont even admit to what goes on every day in every hospital.