http://www.srai.org/euthanasia-or-swechhamrityu-lets-be-practical-yaar/ Website of Science and Rationalists' Association of India (Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samity) Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:18:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.srai.org/euthanasia-or-swechhamrityu-lets-be-practical-yaar/comment-page-1/#comment-17903 Abhi Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:36:30 +0000 http://www.srai.org/?p=523#comment-17903 My only question is who is the Govt. or the court to debar me from taking my own life. Is my life a social property? Secondly, those against death-wish often argue that terminating a life amounts to killing, hence suicide is a crime . How many people were killed in the name of war and capital punishment. If death is such an abominable thing, why not immortalize every human on this planet? Actually the Govts in most countries are totalitarian. They think that they only have the right to dictate a citizen how to live and die. My only question is who is the Govt. or the court to debar me from taking my own life. Is my life a social property? Secondly, those against death-wish often argue that terminating a life amounts to killing, hence suicide is a crime . How many people were killed in the name of war and capital punishment. If death is such an abominable thing, why not immortalize every human on this planet?
Actually the Govts in most countries are totalitarian. They think that they only have the right to dictate a citizen how to live and die.

]]> http://www.srai.org/euthanasia-or-swechhamrityu-lets-be-practical-yaar/comment-page-1/#comment-8322 Rudranil ghosh Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:26:08 +0000 http://www.srai.org/?p=523#comment-8322 @Sumitra...it's true that there r certain diseases for which till date there's no proper treatment & under such circumtances it's the poor ppl who suffer the most,bcoz such diseases do happen to rich as well as poor.so naturally the poor ppl would opt for Euthenasia,even if it means seeing end of one's own chilren(a poor couple in bihar has requested to the CM for granting such wish to their 2 children suffering frm rare disease...source NDTV NEWS)and yet again such if wish is legalised there's no guarentee that ppl will not take advantage of it and mentally force the ailing person to opt for such option,so that ultimaletly they end up taking his /her property.so i think if at all Euthanasia has to be legalised,a set of extreme rare diseases has to be shortlisted by a panel consisting of legal experts,doctors,social workers.The Euthanasia law has to be extremly leakproof so that we don't hv 2 c cases such as parents/siblings of a spastic person applying for his/her death when they can easily take care of such persons.If we look into history "SATI" pratha was sort of a swechhamrityu,but ultimaletly it ended up being a savage act,where windows without children were forced against thier will to perform sati,and ultimately the relatives and the scoundrel bramhins ended up taking her share of property...so at the end it came down to the monetary matters wic made the society fit for cannibals and savages.so there r many pros and cons to Euthanasia wic has to be dealt with before legalising it. @Sumitra…it’s true that there r certain diseases for which till date there’s no proper treatment & under such circumtances it’s the poor ppl who suffer the most,bcoz such diseases do happen to rich as well as poor.so naturally the poor ppl would opt for Euthenasia,even if it means seeing end of one’s own chilren(a poor couple in bihar has requested to the CM for granting such wish to their 2 children suffering frm rare disease…source NDTV NEWS)and yet again such if wish is legalised there’s no guarentee that ppl will not take advantage of it and mentally force the ailing person to opt for such option,so that ultimaletly they end up taking his /her property.so i think if at all Euthanasia has to be legalised,a set of extreme rare diseases has to be shortlisted by a panel consisting of legal experts,doctors,social workers.The Euthanasia law has to be extremly leakproof so that we don’t hv 2 c cases such as parents/siblings of a spastic person applying for his/her death when they can easily take care of such persons.If we look into history “SATI” pratha was sort of a swechhamrityu,but ultimaletly it ended up being a savage act,where windows without children were forced against thier will to perform sati,and ultimately the relatives and the scoundrel bramhins ended up taking her share of property…so at the end it came down to the monetary matters wic made the society fit for cannibals and savages.so there r many pros and cons to Euthanasia wic has to be dealt with before legalising it.

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