If human beings can not decide about the only thing that belongs to you, your life, then it is clear that there are entities that are doing everything possible to master the does not belong to either the State or religions. Thus, life must be thought from their autonomy, not from the unit. While suicide has a number of contentious issues in euthanasia or assisted dying in front of an illness, terminal or degenerative process, the value rises is that of freedom. Freedom to stop the human suffering and their loved ones, free to dispose the only thing that a creature possesses. Sectors
physicians opposing the freedom to die, they argue that medicine is a profession made to save lives because that is natural. The truth is that there is nothing more unnatural than opening the body to undergo a surgery to transplant organs or deliver drugs to the body. If you respect the natural process of life, then medicine and chemistry would be required to recognize unnatural origin. But at bottom it is the defense of life, but control over the will that science or religion, as usual, try to impose a post-modern societies.
Kevorkian-Thanatron
was just released on HBO, the film presents the thinking and actions of the doctor Jack Kevorkian in the nineties in Michigan - USA. Kevorkian since the seventies wrote and did research on the right to a dignified death, in contrast to the puritanism of a large sector of the U.S. population. Created the machine called Thanatron, from which triggers a mechanism in which the patient self-administered chemical agents, resulting in sedation and death.
In three years one hundred and thirty human beings came to Kevorkian for the action of his inventions. Before the final decision, the doctor informed about the process and to avoid legal problems in the video was recorded the patient's wishes to end his suffering. As expected Kevorkian was taken several times a Michigan court accused of helping terminally ill patients die, trials in which evidence was not guilty. But Kervorkian is not only a doctor but a great intellect provocative, leading him to confront even more to science and religion. Thus, an achievement that is broadcast on national television via the program 60 Minutes on CBS, the video in which he applied euthanasia Thomas Youk, 52, suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. That was the straw that broke the camel, so he was convicted and served eight years in prison, which came out in 2008.
Kevorkian's lesson is significant, question the pedestal on which medical science has been placed, calls into question the state authority to limit freedom, and naked to religions as comprehensive institutions of autonomous beings. Kevorkian could save the video in that injected Youk, but his intention was precisely the world to see that death is not a crime, but in certain circumstances it is necessary to protect the dignity and freedom to die.
modern atavism
It is a question of overcoming the drag atavistic societies. The Western world is presented as a civilization rapidly advancing the development, using technology as its emblem and boosting trade and economic freedoms as a condition of development. But if this does not in parallel with the recognition that the principal symbol of freedom and modernity is to respect the will of man, we only have a litter without advancing civilization.
Death is a right, under certain circumstances such as in cases of terminal illness or unbearable suffering, the state must recognize and do not prevent people from achieving a dignified death. While the State and religion have legitimized on the basis of seeking the common good, today is absurd move forward without the recognition rights of minorities, among whom are people who want to stop living.
West has fought with death, the notes and approached with fear, as something always grim. Other cultures do incorporate a death in the same life cycle, recognize, prepare for it and value it as the big question is. There is nothing more natural than the birth and death, the only thing a human can be sure of is that was born and he will die, everything else is relative. Paradoxically protects the right to life, but it ignores the right to die when the two situations are the faces of the same coin. The large number of people who went to Kevorkian in the nineties, shows that if you provide a voluntary and dignified death, would be thousands who would opt for it. Alexander Sack
May 20 2010
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