Santiago Bilinkis l Risk and Reward - Trying to live a life out of the comfort zone

Yesterday night a television channel aired a British documentary called “Right to Die: The Suicide Tourist” showing the process by which Craig Ewert, a U.S. university professor who suffered an incurable degenerative disease, took his own life at the Swiss clinic Dignitas, where he practiced euthanasia .

This generated a wide range of reactions, most of them against euthanasia and contrary to the broadcast of the show itself.

I find it hard to believe that in the 21st century most people oppose to something as basic as the right of every person to decide how and when to die.

In this world where the right to a dignified life is denied to millions of people suffering from hunger and poverty, and millions of victims die from preventable diseases, there are also those who turn the “right to live” into a “duty to be alive”, as long as possible at any price, thereby denying the dignity both in life and in death.

Craig Ewert, says with an overwhelming simplicity: “If I go through with it, I die as I must at some point. If I do not go through with it, my choice is essentially to suffer, and to inflict suffering on my family and then die! Possibly in a way that is considerably more stressful and painful than this way. “. The video is convincing and touching, but impressive and I leave to the discretion of the readers if they want to see it. You can also read the opinion of his wife, which is also very interesting.

To those of us who love and enjoy life is difficult to understand that someone would choose to die. But under this misunderstanding, deny that right to others means to impose our way of relating to life to them.

Something exists while its opposite exists. Where the right to die is denied, the right to live dissappears with it, becoming an imperative .

Photo: Jennifer

Via: Bernardo Wysokikamien