Why not let him go?

A few years ago, David Goodal, a 104-year-old Australian plant and ecologist, opted for euthanasia. At that time, the old man was still alive and well, able to squeeze the bus, take the train, engage in scientific research, act in drama, and play tennis. Just surrounded by children and singing happy birthday to you, but a month later, on the nonsense that "the quality of life is declining rapidly with aging", he went to a clinic in Switzerland to make a self-determination. After watching his journey to death, I wrote an article called "After Life Without Love."

In that article, I said, "There is nothing more decisive in describing a man's despair of being alive to the greatest and deepest." ”

However, not wanting to live does not mean that you can die freely. Even if you are born without love, there are still many people who will not let you die. Even if you live a poor life as a pig or a dog, whether you want to take the initiative to be happy or let people assist in happiness, you are not allowed by the people's hearts and the law.

Recently read "Southern Weekend", saw a reporter interview about euthanasia, the article mentioned a Spanish movie "Deep Sea Sleep", adapted from real people, after searching, it is very confused.

It's the story of a person who really doesn't want to live because of a rapid decline in quality of life seeking euthanasia.

The protagonist is called Ramon, when he was young, he jumped on the beach and broke his cervical vertebrae, high paraplegia, except for a head that can move the whole body consciousness is lost, eating and drinking Lasa all rely on people to serve, so he lived "28 years, 4 months and days". In his own words, he lived a "hellish life without dignity." The film does not depict too much of the troubles and pains that life brings to himself and his family, but people with a little common sense can imagine how a high paraplegic person is worse off than dead, and how to make an ordinary family exhausted.

I believe that everyone who has fallen into a hellish life without dignity has more than once hoped to end their suffering by ending their lives. Ramon in the film and Ramon in reality, in order to be euthanized, go on TV shows, take the legal route, and write a copy of "Letter from Hell" with a pen in his mouth, telling his miserable life and the urgent mood of wanting to end his life. However, religion does not allow it, the law does not allow it, and the family does not allow it.

Seeing this, I have always had a question: it's all like this, why not let him be relieved? The basic answers should be these: religious — born guilty, guilty is atonement, suicide is escape; legal — living is a natural human right, assisted death is murder; humane — blood kinship is hard to give up, and it's better to die than to live. Therefore, those who are willing to help him to be liberated are all committing adultery.

In the film, Juliet, a seriously ill female lawyer, volunteers to help Ramon apply to the court for euthanasia and publishes Letters from Hell. In the process, they exchanged feelings for each other and agreed to die together after the book was issued. However, in the end, the contract was broken. But another woman named Rosa helped him fulfill his wish, and this woman was called Ramona in reality. "The person who really loves me is the one who helps me to euthanize," he induces Rosa.

In reality, the young people of this small town have been bedridden for 28 years, and have lived themselves as philosophers and criminologists. He became two types of people with his grandfather and brother who farmed cattle. The process of seeking death has been carefully designed to exonerate, dividing the steps of obtaining drugs into 11 links, and other friends act separately to avoid each person's guilt. Ramona exercised her right of silence in both police investigations and in court, and was not convicted of a crime due to insufficient evidence.

In 2005, the film won the 77th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the true story behind the film was known to more people, and the love promoted the process of euthanasia legislation in Spain. On 18 March 2021, Spain passed the euthanasia regulations by a final vote. There is thus one more country in the world that is free to choose whether to live or die happily.

The matter of life and death has always been a great thing, but it has not always been a matter of freedom. For a person who is born without love, whether he can freely decide life and death, a humane society should give a humane solution. Ants are still greedy, and they do not hesitate to die for people, that is for healthy people. For a person who can only die to be free from a hellish and undignified life, let him die, and assisting him in death is called doing good. He cannot be allowed to be liberated for religious, legal, and human reasons, and let individuals and families carry the burden of economic and ethical burdens.

People are going to die, and the difference is only a few years earlier and a few years later. Like Goodal, if you don't feel unlovable, you may be able to live for a few years in the "rapid decline in quality of life", but you are likely to live without dignity. So he decided to end his entanglement with the world while he was still in good health and die a dignified death. And Ramon, after 28 years of living like hell without dignity, continues to live, hell does not become heaven, death to himself, to his family is liberation, is a win-win thing.

Yoichi Miyashita, a Japanese journalist interviewed by Southern Weekend, said that American doctors have summed up a 4w rule, that is, in a multi-ethnic country like the United States, wealthy, white, welleducated, and anxious people are more inclined to choose euthanasia, while Asians and Latinos rarely choose euthanasia. Yoichi Miyashita sees this as the difference between individualism and collectivism, and I think it's the difference between heroism and cynicism. Resolutely going to death and dying well is not as good as living, are two cultures, the former is more tragic, the latter is more nostalgic. The problem is that U.S. law doesn't seem to allow euthanasia either.