Euthanasia versus Suicide.
The Moral and Ethical RIGHT to End One’s Own Human Life.
My Mother’s Decision to Quit Living on Earth. (Euthanasia)
Free Will versus The Will of Society, the Legal Field and Religions.
To Die with Integrity and Dignity Instead of with Pain and Suffering.
From the Individual or Personal, Medical, Legal, Social, and Religious Standpoints.
The Metaphysical and Spiritual Standpoints.
A Multi-Dimensional State of Consciousness.
By: Mr. George D. Patnoe., Jr!
June 26th, 2019.
This free online essay, story, lecture is dedicated to the honor and memory of my deceased human mother who was not only a mother to six remarkable people in their own individual way, but who was also a nurse throughout her life to countless people in the various hospitals she was employed, including the veterans who she served as a nurse at her local VA hospital.
Taking one’s own life is a very serious course of action for any human being. This is a very serious topic that each individual human being might have to face during their lifetime, but it is also a very serious topic that society, the medical fields, and the legal fields and even all of the various religions must face too because some human beings have a quick and painless death while other human beings have a very slow and painful death that could be avoided if they decided to end their human life by their own intelligent free will with integrity and dignity, along with a sense of their true humanity.
The Difference Between Euthanasia and Suicide.
From the moral and ethical standpoint regarding the acts of suicide or an individual’s personal decision to end one’s own individual and personal human life is not a simple decision, except for those individual human beings who simply have given up on their human life because they are ‘lost’ in this world. Being lost in this world, meaning a human being who has not found their own life instead of floating through life like a sailboat on the ocean, is not a good enough reason to end own’s life or commit suicide. A young person taking their own life is bad for all sorts of logical, moral, and ethical reasons. But even some young people have life and death problems to face.
On the other hand, there is a huge difference between suicide and euthanasia. There are conditions that warrant an individual human being’s decision to commit euthanasia who is willing to end their own life, like putting a dog or cat to sleep because their individual bodies have just given out, their internal organs are damaged or have wasted away after many years of working properly, or they are on their deathbed and they know they are dying and they want to end their life by their own free will. No, not easy decisions for any human being to make.
Can and should the legal and medical fields, or society at large, or any religious group be the deciding factor for any intelligent rational thinking individual human being who wants to commit suicide for whatever reason? Maybe yes and maybe no, depending on each human being and each situation. If a individual human being is going through some tough times which could be overcome with some help for any outside sources from the medial field or from any part of society or even from a religion, then it should be logical that stopping such a person from committing suicide who only needs a push to continue living by getting the help they need, either physical or mental help would be a good thing.
Can and should the legal and medical fields, or society at large, or any religious group be the deciding factor for any intelligent rational thinking individual human being who wants to commit suicide for whatever reason? Maybe yes and maybe no, depending on each human being and each situation. Unlike suicide, euthanasia is a completely different form of an individual ending his or her own life for the correct reasons after they have lived a long life and they are dying anyway, depending on the individual situation.
Euthanasia is ‘The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.
Here is the real problem with suicide and euthanasia my dear readers. The real problem with dying and death is the mental state, the psychological state, the state of consciousness within the patient who knows that he or she is going to die anyway because after so many months or years or even decades. They know, truly know that their biological body is not going to continue to be operational any longer. So they just want to stop the pain and suffering they are going through and to also stop the pain and suffering of their loved ones watching them suffer with biological pain, along with watching them die a slow death when everyone involved would rather stop the scene in front of their eyes.
The difference between the suicidal human being who wants to kill themselves for no good reason versus the patient who wants to commit euthanasia for a good reason is a huge and very big difference indeed. In the first case there is hope for the suicidal human being and in the second case there may little or no hope at all for the human being who is painfully suffering everyday in a hospital bed. Has society, the medical and legal fields, and all religions dealt with this very serious and important topic or have they ignored it completely?
I live in America, where it is illegal to take one’s own life as a suicide action of dying and death. Euthanasia is allowed in some cases as I understand it, but not in all cases relating to a dying patient who is suffering with pain in a hospital bed. Should it be that way or should it be different? Individual human beings who want to commit suicide when they could be healed of their mental and physical issues and problems is one thing. But individual human beings who want die or be put to death of their own free will because of truly inescapable biological health problems which will only result in death is a completely different matter all together.
I am waging a very strong bet that almost every human being has at least one very powerful human experience of having to watch a blood relative begin the process of dying because their biological body is just plainly melting away which will only lead to an obvious death in the final analysis whether that loved is either a father or mother, a son or daughter, a friend or anyone you might know, including yourself. I recently learned of the horrible details of my own mother’s slow and painful process of dying and of her death. It was not a fun event to listen too.
She and my dad had made the decision that it was time to take out the tubes that were through her mouth, down her throat, and into her lungs to keep her lungs breathing good enough to keep her alive. The tubes were pumping oxygen into her lungs for a week or so. When the tubes to her lungs were taken out of her lungs, the doctors gave her a shot of something that put her to a slow and peaceful sleep until she quickly died. Truth be told, she wanted to die way much sooner, but because her free will and personal wishes were disregarded by the medical field, the legal field, and by society’s norms, she was forced to die a slow and painful process of dying and death. This is not the way it should be in America or in any place in the world.
I was told that my mother simply stated by yelling out loud, “I just want to die. I just want to die.” But no, the medical field, the legal field, and society’s norms made her suffer until the very end of her human life. Wrong, wrong, wrong! Completely wrong, my dear readers.
And that was that! My human mother’s biological body suffered no more because it was not moving, non operational any more. But no, it was not, ‘And that was that!” at all. Why? Because she left behind a bunch of human beings with brains, minds, and states of human consciousness that still own and process the memories of how she lived and die without one human ounce of human dignity and integrity which is the real crime in this specific case and in many other health case just like my mother’s case. Should not human beings be able to live and then die by their own free will and decisions with integrity and dignity instead of with pain and suffering just because either society, the medical and legal fields and even religious thought demand that human beings have to live as long as possible because otherwise it is a crime of some sort?
From My Mother’s Individual-Personal Standpoint of her Death.
What is the moral and ethical standpoint of my mother’s own individual and personal decision to end her own human life?
From my mother’s individual-personal standpoint her biological body was legally and morally and ethically her own biological human body. She had lived with it since the day she was born and her biological body was nobody’s business but hers, as long as she was a law abiding citizen and she was not a threat to another human being. Also, my mother’s biological human body had given up, it was worn out, ... it was quitting its job of being alive. She knew it and everyone around her knew it too. My mother had been a nurse her whole life, working in different hospitals mainly in New York, so obviously she knew that human beings die everyday for all sorts of reasons. But we all know it, don’t we? But that concept always seems out there until you have to deal with your own morality and your own process of dying and death. You all know that someday you will die too. And if you do not know that fact you better wake the heck up and get ready for your death because it can happen at any time and at any second of any day of the week. Ok then!
Was it morally and ethically correct for my mother to end her own human life? In a way it does not matter because she was ‘dead’ anyway. She was on her deathbed and there was nothing that was going to be done to save her at that stage of the game of life and death. But yes it was morally and ethically correct to have a needle injected into her biological body to enter into that eternal sleep and travel into the afterlife, if that would be the case for her.
From the Medical Standpoint of her Death.
What is the moral and ethical standpoints of the medical field’s decision to continue my mother’s life when they know she will only die anyway with pain and suffering.
The medical field’s number one rule is to do no harm and to save and preserve life for as long as possible. But is that a realistic rule, the preserving life for as long as possible? No it is not, since the medical field can not even heal many of the medical cased that they are faced with everyday of the week. But the truth is that everyday that a patient is being treated in a hospital or by a doctor, then the hospital and doctors are being paid money. Once that patient is dead, no more money for them. Human beings who are sick, dying and holding unto life is a very big business or money making opportunity.
From the medical standpoint of my mother’s death, the doctors and nurses all knew that the medical profession had done everything they could for my mother, holding onto her for as long as they could to make as much money from her insurance company as they could put money into their bank accounts. She was in a hospital bed many times thinking and pondering how she was going to handle her personal situation, but the doctors and nurses too were also thinking and pondering how to handle her personal situation. Of course their job to prolong human life for as long as possible but how long is too long? When is it ok for a dying human being to say to their doctors, “Enough is enough! Let me die! Put the needle into my arm and get it over with!”
Let us be honest with each other here and now. If a patient is kept alive for as long as possible, the doctors and hospitals get to cash in because they need patients to make money. This is true even if the patient knows he or she is dying and they want to end their pain and suffering and agony because they realize that their time if up or their biological life is over. If they know that they had lived a good life and was a good human being, and they did the best they could in this crazy world sometimes called the rat race, then they might say to themselves, ‘Enough is enough. It is time to exit this world.” But do the doctors think like this or do they think to themselves, well it is just another human biological body we need to make money off of for as long as possible?
Is it morally and ethically correct to keep a human being alive just to make more money for as long as possible?
From the Legal Standpoint.
What is the moral and ethical standpoints of the legal field of my mother’s own decision to end her own human life?
From a legal standpoint it is usually illegal to take one’s own life by way of a plain good old fashion suicide in your own house or anywhere outside your house. So if you really want to end your life, do not talk about it or do it in front of a US police officer because they will have you sent to the psych ward to have you evaluated by medical professionals who probably do not really care about your human life and your mental and human problems anyway.
But here is the rub! If a human being is in good physical health, then it is assumed that any desire to kill one’s human biological body is originating from a mental or psychological cause or nature and if that mental or psychological cause or nature can be cured or treated or healed, then the suicidal patient needs to be kept alive by the government or the hospital or by society until they appreciate being alive on planet earth and they get healed of their negative condition.
But if a human being is literally dying on a hospital bed, or even not in a hospital bed, why should a bunch of human law makers and laws make decisions for a human being who is of sound mind and who has the enough intelligence to make their own rational and morally and ethically decision about ending their own human biological life when that biological body is rotting away from the inside out? Should not the individual human patient who is suffering be able to make their own moral and ethical decisions when they have had enough pain and suffering and they want to make their own moral and ethical decisions when and where and how to end their own human life with integrity and dignity?
From Society’s Standpoint.
What is the society’s moral and ethical standpoint of my mother decision to end her own human life.
What does society think about an individual human being making his or her personal decision to end their own human life for whatever reason whatsoever? Is it society’s ( meaning a single or group of human beings ) business at all to make moral and ethical decisions for another single human being who for whatever reason wants to end their own human life by killing themselves, but esp. for medical reasons?
All around the globe different cultures practice and think about their morals and ethics in different ways, but in America I am assuming that nobody except the legal and medical profession actually cares almost nothing about an individual human being taking their own life to escape their life on planet earth. It would seem only logical that most other people are to busy worrying about their own human lives and families to worry about other people’s personal and individual problems, including the suicidal human beings and the patients in hospitals.
But then again, if society can help an individual human being who is suicidal but they can not help a dying patient in a hospital bed, that is a very big difference when it comes to any society judging and making judgements on those human beings who commit euthanasia for the correct reasons.
From a Religious Standpoint.
What is the moral and ethical standpoint of some religions regarding my mother’s free will decision to end her human life?
In America, some religions view suicide a sin and a path to eternal damnation or a way to eternal hell in their afterlife, if they indeed have a afterlife. For those religions it is a clear and cut fact that any human being who commits suicide is going to hell in their afterlife for eternity. Is that a true religious concept of not? Hum! Can any human religion make a moral and ethical decision for anyone, but especially a sick and dying patient in a hospital who is close to death anyway? It would seem immoral and unethical to let a human being suffer in pain until death when that human biological body is going to stop functioning anyway.
The real question that could be asked is how many outdated and mentally delusional religious concepts have been destroyed by modern day science and knowledge and information? If old and outdated religious mental concepts have been wrong about many things physically and spiritually, then it could be assumed that just maybe the religions that believe that suicide and euthanasia is a sin and a path to eternal damnation may be wrong, even if there is answering in the afterlife that a human being who commits suicide for no good reason at all. But if a dying human being is close to death anyway, how could it be a sin to end one own’s life instead of prolonging it when a rational human being might think to themself that keeping a suffering and painful human alive longer than necessary or even possible might be the real sin.
Those religions would also state that if you do not believe in what they want you to believe in the way of God and evil, life and death, moral and ethics or how you lived you life, then you are damned anyway, so what is the point or difference if a ‘sinner or non-believer’ kills themselves before a natural and normal death? If you are condemn to hell because of the way you lived your life and you did not believe in a certain religion, then what is the difference if you include one more sin to your list of sins by either taking your own life by suicide for no good reason or by euthanasia because of a real biological and medical reason.
But maybe any individual human being who does commit suicide for the wrong reasons is indeed headed for trouble in the afterlife because they did not live out their human life to its full potential. And maybe because most human beings have no idea about the true mental concepts of God and evil, life and death and the afterlife in the first place, it might not make any difference in their afterlife, no matter how they lived, or died or how they exited planet earth. But oh my dear readers, it does make a difference how they lived their life before they died to go into their afterlife.
From a Metaphysical Spiritual Standpoint.
Now then, my dear readers, let us mentally travel up the ladder of consciousness to a new perspective on the living process while in a human body, the dying process, and some issues of life and death, and the concept of consciousness. It could all be wrapped up into the issue of how human beings prepare for their afterlife before they die their human death? How many human beings search out for any sense of a true spiritual state of consciousness while they are still living in the human plane of existence? How many human beings have handled both physical and mental false mental claims against their true spiritual selfhood as they lived as human beings before they had to face the false claim that they were going to die.
OK then! I am going to bluntly state some truths that many readers will not accept as truth, but this ok with me. One day you will accept these truths that I will write down now for you to read. Let me start off by stating that there is no God that sees any human beings living or dying, nor does this God see or know anything about death because on a very high level of spiritual consciousness, God is Life and not death. God does not cause death nor see a human death.
That being stated, human beings do have to face the issues of life and death at some moment in their lives. But can any human being face death on a biological level of consciousness? No, they can not because in one sense the human biological body is already dead even when it is alive. What is more alive than the biological body is the human consciousness which can understand abstract metaphysical truths and real true spiritual truths and not made up human false mental concepts about life and death. That being stated, what does each and every human beings need to do before they die a human death is to mentally search out the true meaning and purpose and goal of human existence, which includes transforming their human biological state of consciousness to a discover their true spiritual state of consciousness which knows nothing of dying or death.
How can this be you ask yourself? It is by having a multidimensional state of consciousness that each and every human being can begin to understand and overcome their false sense of being only a biological human body with a limited human brain and intelligence with a limited human consciousness to discover what God almighty sees each being as spiritual. I am not going to explain every deep concept that I could here, but I will state an example of what each and every human being can know about themselves before they die their human death.
The impersonal material mind states that every human being is created by a sperm and an egg with DNA code inside their biological bodies. But God, the Divine Mind only sees each and every ‘creature’ as a creation of an idea or an image within the realm of the Divine Mind.
The impersonal material mind states that each human being is created as only a living material creation which is true on the earthly plane of existence of life. But God, Spirit only sees each and every ‘creature’ as a creation of a pure spiritual nature with no sense of the material dualism of matter and spirit, life and death.
The impersonal material mind states that each and every human being is created as a biological body with five physical senses and with a life or soul inside the body. But God, Soul never sees a limited soul that is trapped inside a biological human body. God, Soul only sees an unchangeable sinless identity that is not only not inside a human body, but which is already at one with God, the divine Principle of Being.
The impersonal material mind states that each and every human being is created as a little tiny I or ego that is separated from God from the moment they are born to the moment they die. But God, the divine Principle only sees each and every ‘creature’ as eternally at one with the invisible realm of Life, Truth, Love.
The impersonal material mind states that each and every human being has a beginning as birth, matures, and has an end as death. But that is only a false material concept! The God that is Life sees each and every ‘creature’ as a deathless, eternal creature that lives and moves and has its being within the realm of eternal, deathless, Life.
The impersonal material mind states that each and every human being is a false state of consciousness that is at one with a collective human consciousness that can experience sin, sickness, and death. But God, Truth sees each and every ‘creature’ as a state of a healthy consciousness that knows no human disease or sickness. God, Truth sees each and every ‘creature’ as a divine state of spiritual consciousness that is so pure as to know nothing whatsoever about the impersonal material mind’s false claims regarding life and death.
The impersonal material mind states that each and every human being is imperfect somehow and in some way from the moment they are born to the moment they die. But God, Love sees each and every ‘creature’ as a state of perfection within the higher realm of Infinite Divine Love.
If you begin to know those truths, you will not fear death because you have already transformed your human conceptions into divine conceptions.
The Issue of an Afterlife.
Ok then, some human beings will never believe in an afterlife because of the very simple reason that they can not see or experience the afterlife now. I will state here and now that there is an afterlife at least for some and maybe for all human beings who are born with their biological bodies and who then watch themselves die. The problem is that the human being’s limited five physical senses can never testify to an afterlife. But having a multidimensional state of consciousness while still living as a human being can not only testify to an afterlife, but it can experience it while still living on planet earth. It is all matter of consciousness and having a multidimensional state of consciousness while you are living as a human being.
Is it an easy task to perform? No it is not! So what are you waiting for, before it is to late?
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