Friday, December 18, 2009

Will court allow a woman to die?

People all over the world are still busy fighting for the right to life, life with dignity. But some people can think beyond that. They are fighting for the right to death, Euthanasia. Social activist Pinki Virani is one of them. She has taken the fight for death of Aruna who is in hospital for last 36 years. She was assaulted and attacked by a fellow worker in the same hospital where she is admitted now. She has no one to visit her. She cannot feed herself, she cannot understand anything or react. She is no human being. She is a dead body and should not be fed meshed vegetable and let die. That is what the petition says to Supreme court of India.

Is it not a contradiction in itself? When she is no human being, a dead body, then why she should have right to die? Dead bodies do not have right. Who we are to decide who should live and not? In any country of the world this topic has not been yet decided. In fact, it is not discussed widely. On one hand we, the educated people, messiah of the world, applaud movies like Tare Zameen Par and Paa because it is about the people who have some sort of disability. They are not normal, as we consider normal. They need support. One other hand if someone, who is not in coma, but cannot led life like us, we want to kill. Why we have mental hospitals then? Many people with mental disorders cannot led their life as "normal". Just kill them or use more posh language, provide them euthanasia facility.

I believe there are so many other issue (of life) India is suffering from that we can concentrate on them and make life better for the people (including disabled) than kill them. There are very few people in the world who demand euthanasia for themselves. People are suffering from something so wants to run away as the world cannot provide them cure. Farmers commit suicide because they do not have money, rather than using their right-to-die. We do not need to fight for the farmers to have right-to-die we should concentrate our energy on issue that can bring the farmers out of poverty and do not commit suicide.

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