Euthenasia
It is not easy to write about a controversial issue such as death sentence or euthenasia. Have you ever been in any situation when someone so dear to you is suffering to death, has no chance of getting better and there is nothing he or she can do about it? Well I am all for euthenasia; for me euthenasia is not killing, per say, it is just letting people with no chance whatsoever, rest in peace. I am a catholic woman, I know that it is not okay for anyone to decide when your time has come but God. Even though I do believe in miracles, in these cases I prefer to avoid waiting for one to happen and to let people go. After all you are taking a decision for someone whose life has just ended.
My grandmother spent 4 years in a “vegetable” state, she was suffering indeed, but there was nothing she could do about it. I think it is selfish to want someone to stay in that state, in fact that is not a way of life, it is selfish because when you are so attached to someone you do not want to let them go so instead of letting them go and rest in peace, people decide to keep them alive even if it is artificially. This is no way of life, it isn’t since the moment people cannot survive by themselves and are in need of any machine to keep them going. I have many experiences with this issue. Do you imagine to spend 4 years of your so called “life” breathing artificially and not being able to do ANYTHING on your own? My grandmother had to be feed by a tube, the same was for going to the bathroom, she could not even hold her saliva, she was completely depending from machines and her helping crew. This was not only difficult for her, but it was hard on the whole family, my mother tells me that whenever she went visiting, she find it hard to hold it together because she could not stand watching her mother in law, who was always active and independent, in such a state.
As I said before, I have some experience in this subject. When my grandfather had his first “derrame”, he lost control over the left side of his face, he could not talk, he could not eat on his own, anything. This alone was difficult already. When he had his second lapse he said to my mother that if anything else where to happen to him,
