22 August 2006

Life at Mercy.

"The greatest wonder of living species is ability to Copulate and carry the generation On."
Euthanasia today in west has become a debatable issue, where laws are added to the constitution either in favour or against it. Its quite a controversial issue because it involves conflicting human rights as well as religious belief. The word is greek originated Eu: Good/Happy Thanatos: death, thus implying happy death.
The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs defines Euthanasia as act of bringing death to a hopelessly ill and suffering person in relative quick and painless way for reason of mercy. They are again classified as Voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia.
In Voluntary, the person gives the content for him being killed, where the consent is given in writing or verbal dictum. In involuntary euthanasia basically involves physician assisted suicide.
In age of modern scientific revolution, our thinking has undergone such radical change, we feel we have mastered things around us, and in things where we fail, we justify our stand by having rules and law in favour of our ego enhancement. And clearly i sense euthanasia is one such issue that has to be tackled more efficiently.
Euthanasia will destroy the societal respect for life. With advancement in medicine the society will become insensitive to death, and LIFE will no longer be valued. This will surely degrade the social fabric and lead to various other socital ills. Euthanasia becoming legal will surely result in misuse and abuse at the hands of life sustainers. Once the society accepts life can be terminated because of its diminshed quality, it will be biggest setback to human thought process. As this will surely bring out the animal traits that we have carried out during our evolution. There might be many rational answer favouring euthanasia, like suffering faced by patients, cost of life support system to which patient is adminstered, etc etc....
I would like to bring out my personal experience, it was my grandmother who was paralytic suffered stroke and went into coma, and was put into life support system, with no gurantee of life recovery. We decided to get her back to home, where she lived like a living corpse amidst us for entire week, with no sign of life except breathing. Never did we feel that she should be euthanised(by the way in India euthanasia is crime). We all feel the moment an individual is born his death to is decided. And it will always be good if we avoid being instrumental in other death.
My personal opinion is against the practice of euthanasia. I feel this issues has to be morally dealt rather than logical and scientifically.

02 August 2006

War leading to Peace?

In War no one is Correct.
In Love no one is Wrong.
Well so strange it is, the heart which is the seat of compassion, which melts seeing the suffering of others, takes a backseat, when man indulge in war. We human's are quite funny i suppose. We are ready to die both for WAR and LOVE. Time and again history has shown and we all have believed, war has bought nothing more than misery and devastation to mankind.
Even Operation ROLLING THUNDER (1965-68), US attack on north vietnam, as part of Cold War did no good, nor did american achieve there mission, but had to withdraw there entire army as it suffered heavy losses. So is even the second gulf war. Attack by american on iraq in order to overthrow the iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But what have they achieved is nothing but emergence of Iraqi insurgency and major Sectarian violence. And now it's Israel mindlessly attacking Lebanon, claiming its to wipe out the Hezabollah militants who are a threat to there existence. History has shown however the mighty the nation be, it hasn't succeded in overpowering a small nation, in order to acomplish it mean needs.
"History repeat itself, but the cost mankind has to pay is heavier everytime."
I'm really suprised despite the fact the war has continued for last 21 days till now, The pressure the international community is putting on Israel, doesn't seem to look that the ceasefire is possible in nearby future. Above this the Iranian president claims he is ready to support Hezabollah in order to completely annihilate Zionism(Israelis) and US from the world map.
Lets remember WAR( this three lettered word) has brought more misery and suffering than anything in the entire history of mankind. How can peace be exchanged with something that results in suffering. Let remember that the darwin theory of existence ( The mightiest survives) is true for animals but not HUMANS. And on this eve of this friendship day( never knew something like this existed before, untill i received forwards and E greeting about this day), Lets remember friendship, loving and sharing alone is way for peacefull existence on this planet Earth and not WAR.