Ordinary people are so fearful and awe-inspiring about death, perhaps because the god of death has a good relationship hidden, let us think that she is so far away and untouchable.
The only real impression of death is a coffin. It was made by my grandma for herself. She was in her 90s at that time. This should be out of the common psychology of the elderly. One day, my grandma hired a few carpenters to the old house and asked them to follow the instructions. Make yourself a coffin. At that time, my grandmother still had the right to speak in the family, and everything in the family had to be in her hands, but in those days, she put down everything and led a teapot and a few porcelain cups to supervise the work every day. , lest those carpenters be a little unsatisfactory.
After the coffin was ready, it was placed in the old house. Grandma also purchased a set of quilts and placed them neatly in the coffin. The younger generation probably understands it, and the old house has been abandoned, so the adults do not make any comments. It's just that our children are not very happy. Although a coffin does not prevent us from going wild in the old house, we always have an inexplicable fear of the empty coffin, and we never dare to approach it. Without a place to play, I am naturally a little unhappy.
And that coffin was placed in the desolate old house for nearly three or four years before it came into use. At that time, I had already left my hometown. I didn't have the opportunity to go back to see my grandma, but I didn't feel too sad, just I have been worried that the coffin will become weak because it has been placed for a long time, and will my grandmother lie in it comfortably and go to another world?
Perhaps it is this natural fear of death that makes us feel that Raymond's death-seeking behavior is unreasonable.
Raymond said that he just felt that his life had no meaning, and he had no intention of making judgments on other paralyzed patients. He did not have the power, so he hoped that others would not judge him. I also don't want to make any comments on Raymond's behavior. As he said, I am not qualified. I have never tried to lie in bed, unable to move for decades, and I have never experienced the feeling of being powerless and being at the mercy of others. It was impossible for me to understand Raymond's mood.
There is also a girl in China who has requested euthanasia. Her name is Li Yan. Because of progressive muscular dystrophy, she has lost her ability to support herself since she was a child. She wants to help her submit the "euthanasia application" motion through the representatives of the National People's Congress. She wrote in her diary that a reporter from Ningxia Daily interviewed her, and the first sentence he asked was: Are you being too irresponsible to your parents by doing this?
She said: "I was speechless when I was asked. I was irresponsible, but what would I do if I didn't? Who can tell me? When my parents are 80 or they die. What am I going to do?"
She asked him to go back to play a game, lie still in bed for 24 hours or sit still for 24 hours to feel the taste, and then come back for an interview.
She said: "People have the right to live and the freedom to die."
This girl who had a similar experience with Raymond likes to smile like Raymond, and they even said something similar: "I love life, but I don't want to live. "
Death, like birth, is a profound and serious matter. We can't choose birth, so we can't even choose death, don't we have the right to let ourselves die with dignity? Life is destined to have an end, so why can't we choose to leave in peace and tranquility? Choosing euthanasia is not cowardice. On the contrary, it is precisely because we have no fear that we can die head-on and think about how to die with dignity.
We cannot accept euthanasia, largely because we are afraid that it will become a means of escape for the cowardly, and the living who practice euthanasia often encounter embarrassing moral dilemmas. But for Raymond, it's not that he doesn't love life. He even understands the beauty of life better than many healthy people. He loves invention and creation. He has been trapped in his own little day for decades, and he has not let his mind rust. He still attaches great importance to thinking. His charm even infected the female lawyers who came to help him and the female workers who were once disappointed in life. Rosa. Raymond is not lacking in love, just as his sister-in-law said: "This family has never stopped caring for Raymond." Even so, Raymond is not free, and his final impression of the outside world is fixed in him. The moment he rushed to the shoal and touched the reef, the sky was still so blue, the sand was still so soft, and Raymond was surrounded by the sea. I will see my whole life. I have seen it too." For Raymond, who likes to wander and run around, his life was over at that moment, and the rest of his life was just a day of crying with a smile. He had to live without privacy, depended on others all the time, and didn't even have the freedom to reach out and touch Julia, who was a few feet away. Although there were kind people around him, Ramon had to help these kind people. Living against his will, he dared not love, and could not choose a dignified life. His only freedom was to refuse to use a wheelchair and fight for the right to die with dignity.
Death, the nightmarish heavy word, makes us so fearful, so eager to escape. Perhaps only those who have experienced the vicissitudes of life can face death calmly and face this inescapable fate. If life has given us an end, then we will not have too much panic, because that day is certain, but if the day without freedom is an indefinite waiting, and we have no choice, then we should There are also rights and dignity to give up.
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