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Culture & Politics » soc.culture.china » The Right to Die
| The Right to Die [message #225075] |
Sa, 15 Juli 2006 02:11 |
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I ALSO SUGGEST euthanasia. Just as we are putting limits on birth -- birth
control -- let me give you another word: death control. But no nation is
ready for death control. Even if, after a certain age, a person wants to die
and has lived life fully and has no responsibility -- rather he is a burden
on himself -- he is forced to live, because the law is against suicide.
I suggest, if you accept seventy as the average age to die, or eighty
or ninety as the average, a man should be free to ask the medical board: "I
want to be freed from my body." He has every right to do that, if he does
not want to live any more because he has lived enough. He has done
everything that he wanted to do, and now he wants not to die of cancer, or
tuberculosis; he simply wants a relaxed death.
Every hospital should have a special place for people, with a special
staff, where people can come, get relaxed and be helped to die beautifully,
without any disease, supported by the medical profession.
If the medical board feels that the person is valuable, if the medical
board feels that the person is of immense importance, then he can be asked
to live a little longer. Only a few people should be asked to be here a
little longer, because they can be of so much help to humanity, so much help
to others. But if even those people don't want to live, that is their
birthright. You can ask, request, and if they accept it, good; but if they
say: "No, we are not interested any more," then certainly they have every
right to die.
One can understand trying to save a child, but why are you saving old
people who have lived, lived enough, suffered, enjoyed, done all kinds of
things, good and bad? Now it is time -- let them go.
But the doctors cannot let them go because it is illegal.
They cannot take them off oxygen and other life-support systems, so
you go on saving the dying or almost-dead people.
No pope issues a commandment that these people should be allowed
freedom from their bodies. And what is left of their bodies? Somebody's legs
are missing; somebody's hands are missing; somebody's heart is not working
so a battery is working instead of a heart; somebody's kidneys are not
working so machines are doing the work of the kidneys. But what is the
purpose of these people? What will they do even if you continue to keep them
going this way?
Yes, at the most they keep a few people employed; that's all. But what
kind of a creative life are they going to have? And what joy can they have
in all that is being done to them? Continual injections are being given to
them. They cannot sleep, then sleeping pills are given to them. They cannot
wake up, then activators are forced into their blood so they have to wake
up. But for what reason -- the Hippocratic oath? Let Hippocrates go to hell!
He had no idea what his oath was going to bring about.
Instead of medicines, a meditator should be there to teach the dying
man how to meditate, because now medicine is not needed, meditation is
needed -- how to relax and peacefully disappear from the body.
Every hospital needs meditators -- they are essential -- just as it
needs doctors.
Up to now meditators were not needed because there was only one
function: to save life. Now the function is doubled: to help people die.
Every university should have a department where meditation is taught so that
people themselves are ready. When the time comes to die, they are fully
ready to die -- with joy, with celebration.
But suicide is a crime. This will be considered suicide, and I will be
considered to be teaching people illegal things.
My concern is with truth, not with law.
The truth is that you have unbalanced life, nature. Please give back
its balance.
I suggest a movement so that when people have lived enough and they
desire to be freed from their bodies, then hospitals should provide a
convenient, pleasant death. It is absolutely sane that every hospital should
have a special ward with all facilities so that death becomes a pleasant
experience, enjoyable.
Copyright © 2006 Osho International Foundation
http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Language=Engl ish
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| Re: The Right to Die [message #225117 ] |
Fr, 14 Juli 2006 14:41 |
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dd wrote:
> I ALSO SUGGEST euthanasia. Just as we are putting limits on birth -- birth
> control -- let me give you another word: death control. But no nation is
> ready for death control. Even if, after a certain age, a person wants to =
die
> and has lived life fully and has no responsibility -- rather he is a burd=
en
> on himself -- he is forced to live, because the law is against suicide.
>
> I suggest, if you accept seventy as the average age to die, or eigh=
ty
> or ninety as the average, a man should be free to ask the medical board: =
"I
> want to be freed from my body." He has every right to do that, if he does
> not want to live any more because he has lived enough. He has done
> everything that he wanted to do, and now he wants not to die of cancer, or
> tuberculosis; he simply wants a relaxed death.
>
> Every hospital should have a special place for people, with a speci=
al
> staff, where people can come, get relaxed and be helped to die beautifull=
y,
> without any disease, supported by the medical profession.
>
> If the medical board feels that the person is valuable, if the medi=
cal
> board feels that the person is of immense importance, then he can be asked
> to live a little longer. Only a few people should be asked to be here a
> little longer, because they can be of so much help to humanity, so much h=
elp
> to others. But if even those people don't want to live, that is their
> birthright. You can ask, request, and if they accept it, good; but if they
> say: "No, we are not interested any more," then certainly they have every
> right to die.
>
> One can understand trying to save a child, but why are you saving o=
ld
> people who have lived, lived enough, suffered, enjoyed, done all kinds of
> things, good and bad? Now it is time -- let them go.
>
> But the doctors cannot let them go because it is illegal.
>
> They cannot take them off oxygen and other life-support systems, so
> you go on saving the dying or almost-dead people.
>
> No pope issues a commandment that these people should be allowed
> freedom from their bodies. And what is left of their bodies? Somebody's l=
egs
> are missing; somebody's hands are missing; somebody's heart is not working
> so a battery is working instead of a heart; somebody's kidneys are not
> working so machines are doing the work of the kidneys. But what is the
> purpose of these people? What will they do even if you continue to keep t=
hem
> going this way?
>
> Yes, at the most they keep a few people employed; that's all. But w=
hat
> kind of a creative life are they going to have? And what joy can they have
> in all that is being done to them? Continual injections are being given to
> them. They cannot sleep, then sleeping pills are given to them. They cann=
ot
> wake up, then activators are forced into their blood so they have to wake
> up. But for what reason -- the Hippocratic oath? Let Hippocrates go to he=
ll!
> He had no idea what his oath was going to bring about.
>
> Instead of medicines, a meditator should be there to teach the dying
> man how to meditate, because now medicine is not needed, meditation is
> needed -- how to relax and peacefully disappear from the body.
>
> Every hospital needs meditators -- they are essential -- just as it
> needs doctors.
>
> Up to now meditators were not needed because there was only one
> function: to save life. Now the function is doubled: to help people die.
> Every university should have a department where meditation is taught so t=
hat
> people themselves are ready. When the time comes to die, they are fully
> ready to die -- with joy, with celebration.
>
> But suicide is a crime. This will be considered suicide, and I will=
be
> considered to be teaching people illegal things.
>
> My concern is with truth, not with law.
>
> The truth is that you have unbalanced life, nature. Please give back
> its balance.
>
> I suggest a movement so that when people have lived enough and they
> desire to be freed from their bodies, then hospitals should provide a
> convenient, pleasant death. It is absolutely sane that every hospital sho=
uld
> have a special ward with all facilities so that death becomes a pleasant
> experience, enjoyable.
>
>
>
>
> Copyright =A9 2006 Osho International Foundation
> http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=3DMagazine&Language=3D English
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