[Week 144] End of pain.

Death is the only thing of which we have total certainty, we are always thinking that we will have all our lives to do this or that, but unfortunately it is not so. The human body goes through the stages of birth, maturity, old age and death and as the years of life go by, many times diseases develop that become a real hell for those who suffer from them.

Being the struggle of these people really heartbreaking and most of the time they do not feel well, I have seen how diseases deteriorate and when the time comes, everything becomes a torment. It is very easy to think that those who choose euthanasia, are taking the easy way, that they do not want to continue fighting for their life, but I think the opposite, there are people who suffer so much pain that they just want to leave the material body, which is the cause of all that suffering, for me it is rather an act of courage and detachment to what it means to live in this body.

It is really hard to see how suffering takes over their lives, and I think they should have the possibility of being able to choose because sometimes, even as hard as it may seem, living in this way, suffering for people who want euthanasia, is a synonym that they are already dead in life, because they can't stand anything else. We will only be able to understand what happens if we find ourselves in the same position, for now I am only trying to guess what someone who just wants to rest and is tired of giving everything might think.

Free use photo taken from pexels. Photographer Karolina Grabowska.

I have had experience taking care of sick people and this has torn me apart because there are cases in which they heal and others in which they have been left in a vegetative state and just seeing what the before and after was like is really overwhelming. It becomes difficult and the depression is tremendous for both the person suffering and their family members who also feel like they are slowly dying.

I had a beloved aunt who, due to a stroke she suffered, was in a vegetative state for a month and I assure you that in that month, my life stopped, I was so affected that I could only cry when she slept, seeing her like that and feeling that she didn't want that I think was consuming all of us in the family. I could only really move her eyes and nothing else, but I felt that she was there trapped in that inert body and that consumed me, imagine what she felt.

But I still wished with all my heart and soul that my aunt would get better, but she only made small advances until one day she was no longer with us, she only resisted for a month in that state. And for a second, beyond the pain that I could feel when they gave us the news of her death, I just thought that she had finally rested, she was no longer suffering, there was no more pain in her.

Free use photo taken from pexels. Photographer Jill Wellington.

This is why I believe that each person should be able to choose, that each person should be able to decide what he/she wants to do when he/she finds him/herself in this type of situation, making it clear under some legal statute that in the case of some type of illness or of being in a vegetative state, he/she would agree that euthanasia be practiced on him/her. Because if this decision depends on the family, it almost always happens that they do not agree and keep them alive, because they are being guided by religious precepts, being guided by faith and above all by the love they feel and not by the wishes of the sick person.

For all those who are suffering in this present time, I wish that they find the peace they deserve so much and that they carry in their hearts all that love of which they are a part.

This is my participation in the weekend engagement, proposed by @galenkp .

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