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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-04-07 11:29 PM

When the body’s functions get confused
and help is needed for your every move,
is it wrong to choose a peaceful death?
Why is such a choice called suicide?

‘Tis said dying for one’s country is heroic:
doesn't a soldier stepping on foreign soil
not know he might be killed: is this not suicide?
Ah, but wait: perhaps it is OK to kill oneself
providing one is willing to kill another first?
Am I getting this right?

We can use our mind to choose our time of death,
or we can leave it to the body to decide:
which makes the most sense?
Are we not reasoning creatures?
Should we not have a choice, to live or to die?

Technology makes it possible to keep bodies alive,
often in horrible agony and torment of mind
when in a natural state, such a life would terminate,
and the spirit be set free: what are we afraid of?

Dignity! Right to choose! Autonomy to an individual!
Individual power over death: unacceptable to the system.
There are those given the power of life and death over others:
They need this power – but they hide under morality;
They also need the money drugs provide,
and hide that under some Divine rule:
Ah! What lovely hypocrisy!

So they make themselves judge and jury
and the groans of the dying in their pain
fill their hospitals’ corridors and float everywhere: a curse!
They set their personal morality against another's
denying peace and comfort in the last hours of life,
but it is only greed: profit from the drugs and from the fees,
nothing more, nothing at all.

bubblesleave
Member

since 2006-03-04

Posts 197
Bloomington, IN

1 posted 2006-04-07 11:32 PM

Love this!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2006-04-08 01:19 AM

WindWalker - No one yet appreciates the power of the mind mostly because we haven't been trained to use it to its full potential. I have known of instances when people have decided to die and they have. Perhaps the bodies linger because the mind of the person involved isn't ready to let go. It's perhaps just comforting to think that when suffering is involved but we cannot decry those who minister to the body in the hope of keeping it alive because it is what is expected by us. Most of us only know the "body" of a loved one - it is rare to know the "soul" which I believe lives no matter what.
We all eventually come to our own truth of things and poems like this one are the spurs. Thank you!

StevenS
Senior Member

since 2005-09-21

Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)

3 posted 2006-04-08 06:03 AM

WindWalker, Did you say? most people fear death because they have not made peace with God. Fear is for sale but you don't have to buy it. Always enjoy your walkings!:-)

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