Euthanasia

[MagnetMan]

Medical advances in life extension
brings to the table personal decisions in life cessation

If we no longer die natural deaths
then who is to decide when to die?
And how to end it?

I will be 70 next year
though i am pretty fit
bits and pieces of the body are beginning to break down
and with that comes the knowledge that they will not recover
but keep on deteriorating
which makes thoughts of death
part of my daily ruminations

With this in mind
I have personally begun an imaginative preparatory process
of gradually ac customizing myself
both spiritually and intellectually
to be ready for the death decision

With luck I have five or ten reasonably good years left
It is my hope that during that time
the State ends its ban on euthanasia
and introduces a general educational guide
that prepares us all
for the inevitable
and the means to do so

[lavender1]

MagnetMan:

the topic is ultra sensitive.
with medical advancement came the mental urge to design life against its original nature.
which used to be eternal, before first the soul and then the body were gradually deteriorating from failing to correspond with their DIVINE nature.

is psyche-genetics given up now? does it have to succumb to powers hiding in anonymity and from there shaping our opinions to a "rational" compliance with economic and utilitarian purposes?

back in the eighties already (with nuclear east-west conflict still soaring) i remember having read an article that plans are discussed to the tunes of giving the earth (and mankind) a rather sudden or a more long-drawn-out death.

while i do not wish to deny anyone with a personal reason and agenda to end their lives, i am extremely sensitive to "selection" by scientific design and political endorsement.

people, wake up!

www.assistedsuicide.org/suicide_laws.html

since i have thoroughly read all your posts, here and on another forum, MM, i thought i know your stance on this issue and it being
one fast becoming a death trap of organized "freedom" vs. another death trap set by misleading "faithful believers in god's righteousness".

anonymous online debates may simply not suffice to keep hope and goodwill alive in a world that can make you believe you can't do any more wrong. cowardice is rampant, as far as i see..

\!!
powers are also given to "moderators" on seemingly "dissident philosophy" forums who have no qualms abusing them in the most dismal ways: appearing to have superior "common sense".

www.schreeuwomleven.nl/International/IndexFrR.htm

between a right to die and a duty to die is only a very small step in the new world order design. seems very reasonable but just as unkind.

[MagnetMan]

Lavender
I do not know how old you are
I can only report what is going on in my psyche
as I learn to deal with old age
and the gradual deterioration of the body

I cannot bear the idea of being an invalid
unable to help myself

I will not give up life and health easy
and will fight physical weakness all the way
under my own terms
and not that of another

My lungs are full of holes
eaten away by industrial chemicals
during the battle for survival

My bad
I should have worn a mask
but few were that awake while i grew to manhood

If my health worsens
I plan to camp out in the high mountains
breath clean air
and think clean thoughts
and see if I can cure myself
if not I will exit myself

When my wife became helpless
and took her own death in her own hands
I felt love and respect
no sense of dishonor

[lavender1]

MagnetMan:

a woman's age is either treated with hatred or with contempt, but that aside, do we not know the impact of occupational (yes, precisely that!) hazards to health and well-being, imposed on us under threat of sanctions:

your story tells of a noble spirit, but death as a result of ignorant living must not be accepted; the system is devouring its children (spiritually), and the children never had the wholesome spirit healing anyone by understanding and applying their "knowledge" (physically). is this not a vicious cycle, and (sorry to say) the serpent
referred to in genesis? (although the wisdom of other ancient cultures had the same original wisdom develop in less "triumphant" and more resilient ways?) pride goes before a fall.

i41 see the necessity for changing habit patterns of idealistic nobility, formalistic politeness, ritualistic loyalty, etc. breaking through the maze of resignatory indifference. \!! (seems like all these "terms" should be set in quotations.. since they are losing their value along with the faith in our contemporary's well-meaning and well-being..)

young people with energy surplus concentrating on/in the physical realm are different from elderly supposedly able to progress to a transformational use of energy (experience to knowledge and wisdom) that can well sustain their lives as counsellors (what was a "senate" once, huh?) ----- but they are now the "jews" to be gotten rid of, imho.

this warrior with a track record of some innocence, but a shield disgraced by accusations and "labels" is not now dodging the fight
she obviously had to prepare for.

it's an overall corruption of all charitable "organizations" breaking down the "health care system" even where it once seemed deserving of its name.

life has become an engineering orgy (between technocrats and bureaucrats) with profane pursuits of ulterior sophistry unable to keep up with any purpose and meaning to a "sustainable future". sages and saints, where art thou?

swimming upstream to be eaten by bears? mind over matter?
holy spirit, give me brains!

[lavender1]

layfolks with a real concern apart from supporting the agendas of big pharma and attached medical practioners, researchers and legal advisors in tow ...
should at least know what they are up against when so helplessly asking for laws to be changed, generally.

meanwhile the milking cow is indeed LEFT dying before even remotely anticipating what's going on in the slaughterhouse: some gods in white may also start thinking, eventually.....

no one reading this should accuse me of being a political radical or similar such.