So, consider this: there are times when a critically ill animal, such as a dog, the proverbial 'best friend of humans', or a cat, that at times most charming and invasive of our 'pets', are euphemistically 'put down'. Usually on the premis that their condition is incurable and that, putting an end to their lives or putting them out of their misery, is the 'most humane thing to do.
And so do society, painlessly, send such sick animals on their way to oblivion.
Not so, with us humans,who, by the paradoxical laws of our societies, are condemned to live and stay alive in conditions or states which would be considered cruel and inhumane for animals! Why, and how can this be so?
There are times when society and the law is more concerned with the quality of the life of its animals, than with that of humans.
The fact that he/she remains a receptacle or host for this thing called 'life.' Irrespective of how debased and medically and physiologically vegetative the condition of the human host has become. It does not matter that the sick person can no longer demonstrate that they can continue to interact with their external environment, or will ever be able to do so again.
Life, for the legal and moral guardians of society, is 'sacred', however pitiful and debased it has apparently become. For these guardians, except for when a life is being exterminated as a result of a 'judicial death sentence, it should not be mercifully assisted, in painlessly and dignifiedly making its way towards its relentless, if at times painfully slow and imperceptible journey to oblivion.
To be continued.
If we cannot be aware of, appreciate and live our lives to the full, then how much of a life is it, and does it then become a live of pain and suffering?
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