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Recently my step father passed away. He was sick I kinda forget what it was he had. No matter what the doctors did he just got worse and worse. If not for the machines he was on he would have just passed. One day one of the doctors told my mom there was nothing more they could do and that we should consider hospice and let him pass.
My mom struggled with it I had to explain to her how it is not good for him. How it's got to be torture laying in a hospital bed for nearly a year and not being able to do anything even communicate. I asked her if she was in that position what would she want us to do. She made the decision to have hospice come and bring him to their part of the hospital. No more than a few minutes of being there he passed.
So why can we not have a hospice for this kind of thing? Maybe for most of us there really is no helping. Sometimes problems are too much and there is no fixing them. I know I am certainly there. I guess I am in a very small minority on this subject. I like to think I have a practical mind, one that sees there is nothing that can be done so why fight it.
Yes is life precious, to most yes it is. For some others not so much. So why not just allow those who appreciate and respect it, enjoy it? We as people are so afraid of death and of people dieing. Just look at our judicial system, someone can murder a person on camera, we put that person on death row and they die of old age. I think things like more modern religion have sullied the minds of most people. There were religions and beliefs long before the few we have now. They saw death not as a punishment and something that is to be avoided but as another step in their journey or it is just that a part of life. We live (relatively short lives) and we die, others are born and they go through the same process.
I am not a religious person nor do I have a philosophy I go by. For me it is more you do what you want I'll do what I want and as long as no one else gets hurt or worse then all the better.
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