Assisted suicide is considered illegal in most parts of the world. There are cases where husbands are being sent to jail after increasing their wives' pain medication, which lead to their death, even though they were in the last stages of an irreversible disease.
I am a firm believer of assisted suicide and have often in the past tried to help out where I can.
I guess the difficult part is knowing where to draw the line. Does one weigh up the amount of pain the person is in against the possibility of a cure? Some people might have given up on life, but their close friends and family keep holding on, waiting for a miracle.
I don't want to come across as some do-gooder hero, but I have previously dated women who eventually took their own lives. Many of their friends and family later told me that they wouldn't have been able to do it, if it wasn't for me.
Many people would find it offensive if the person you've just started dating took their own life and the first time it happened I was upset. Not just about the two theatre tickets I bought, but on an emotional level too.
The second time it happens, it's not so much of a shock and you learn to only buy the tickets at the box office on the night of the show.
By the fifth time, you kind of expect it, but it's still off-putting watching a woman stab herself in the face over dinner, knowing that she hasn't paid her half of the meal yet.
Has this put me off looking for romance? The answer to that is a simple no. I believe in love. I believe in romance. So if you're reading this and you're single and you also believe in love, why not drop me a line and we can get together and who knows where things will go.
To be fair, I have an idea, but I might be wrong.
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