The choice of a painless death
Old age is riddled with diseases, weakness and chronic pain. Some lucky old people die in their sleep without suffering much (seemingly). While many others are doomed to a painful drawn out stay in hospital or at home.
If only they are offered an option to pass away without pain. Some would take it voluntarily. Some would be forced to take it for numerous shady and criminal reasons.
But we don’t even discuss it and watch our old people suffer, waiting for their organs to fail and going out in pain. Sure, many of the admitted patients are on heavy doses of pain relievers right before they die but not everyone is lucky to get that treatment.
Gradually, this is changing. More and more countries are creating rules to offer this option of painless death while managing for criminal risks. As the idea spreads, more people will ask for this option which will be made legal soon.
This is a complicated problem to solve which has a mountain’s worth of social stigma around talking it, legal issues around the definition of suicide, preventing coerced decision which is akin to murder and many others.
But the idea is slowly spreading and as more countries implement this policy, we will observe the pitfalls and dangers of this new system and eliminate them in the next draft and one day there will be a choice of voluntary death which won’t be looked down upon and death won’t be something we will dread as much as we do now.
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