Perhaps we will exit, still kicking and screaming that we are too young to die. How can it be otherwise to those who keep saying "Life is too short" even when, life is just life, and it's length if ultimately unknowable.
Regardless of how long we may personally expect to live, genetic factors and personal preferences considered, it seems a number of ways are being discussed which may, at some future date, take the option of living out our natural full lifespan, out of our control.
THE DISCONNECTED NUCLEUR FAMILY AND THEIR DEPENDENTS - Protecting their expected inheritance
It is just possible that some selfish people among the growing numbers of adult ‘children’ never leaving their parental homes, may be hanging around their parent's homes far into Adulthood, proprietarily already watching what they expect to inherit from their parents estates eventually.
All too often, any money they 'borrow' is I suspect merely considered an advance on what the feel is eventually coming to them anyway. Besides it helps them to live the life now, that they feel they deserve.
Considering the disconnection of the Nucleur Family model today, were this 'impatience' to enjoy the benefits of this inheritance now grow; Euthanasia might become a widespread means by which the next generation will succeed the elderly. The disconnection will have reached its disinterested objective culmination.
NDING IT ALL - LEGISLATING MURDER – EUTHANASIA AND ITS PROMOTERS
Should our culture sometime in the future determine that ageing or ailing people are no longer experiencing the 'quality of life' that others feel suitable, or that people are just living too long, we may reach a point where we legislate who lives or dies.
Possibly also, were some soulless bureaucrat and country decide that old or sick people are considered too costly for society to take care of, we might even legislate parameters for Euthanasia to determine the end of life. This would nicely match the Choice movement which determines who gets to be born.
REFUSING HELP THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
For the past couple of years, I have been dismayed to hear many people express unwillingness to have Cancer treatment to prolong their lives. These people seem sincerely to feel that the (possibly painful) treatments necessary would not be worth the possibility of a cure.
The Media when speaking of people saying they will not accept treatment if they get Cancer, might tragically lead to people fearing and/or refusing treatment that just might save their lives. Instead, the Media have unprecedented access to medical and scientific sources and could provide helpful and timely information about alternative options, treatment possibilities and medical breakthroughs. Such information could facilitate informed decisions in conjunction with their medical practitioners as to which alternatives and options might work best for the patient. Scare mongering and unhelpful alarmist articles about serious and especially life threatening illnesses does not help anyone in society. Encouraging early diagnosis would.
NOT WANTING TO BE A BURDEN
Loving and caring people, who have always believed and practiced self sufficiency, might also feel that they would not want to be a Burden, or cause those they love the inconvenience of caring for them if they become ill and require a lot of nursing care and perhaps even help around their homes when they are not able to manage themselves.
Out of consideration and love of their families and friends, those not wanting to be a burden or simply feeling unwell, as well as, those who feel unwanted, may voluntarily make 'Do Not Revive' directives commonplace. Might this even extend to demanding some form of Suicide, assisted or otherwise, to shorten ones own life, when we are unwell or feel we are becoming a burden to others. I fear and dread, this is also a future possibility.
There are already, a lot of people we meet around us, and again, the Media, stating that they would not care to survive if seriously injured in an accident, or had become chronically ill. Strangely, others consider being seriously injured as a being 'A Vegetable'. There are many people who adamantly state that they feel, should they ever go in a coma, or become very infirm, that they would not consider their life worth living. Managing pain, fearing pain and being pain free is also expressed as an important wish or priority.
WHAT I BELIEVE
Because I believe that we exist to learn something and to live out an allotted lifespan, I feel dismayed by the thought of artificially terminating another persons life. Whether through self inflicted Suicide or society mandated Murder, both means artificially truncate the time we have been given for our lives to run their course. Perhaps the only person I am right about with this perspective is myself. However, I am talking about what I personally believe.
I did not refuse Cancer treatment, so I must be happy that I have now lived 13 years and 4 months, as of May 2013 than I might have without it. Just over a week ago, I ran into someone who had endured many, many operations around the same time (before and around the year 2000) and it is now 16 years for him. He delights joyously and rightfully in his 5 year old son.
I hope also that I will, at the end of my life, consider it a success. I hope to feel that I met, interacted with, given to and sometimes helped, many fine people.
I hope also that I can feel that I appreciated often the many gifts I had been given as well as, the fine family I was born into, the lovely friends I made along the way and overall the life I tried, and succeeded, in living to its Natural conclusion.
As Marcel Danesi has written in his book, Forever Young - The Teen-Aging of Modern Culture, the parents are talking the talk of the young, wearing the clothes of much younger people, adopting the music and perhaps also the behaviour and attitudes of those much younger than their chronological age.
In 2012, I wrote about the 'youth' culture influencing our society: #1 FOREVER YOUNG (December 2011) and #2 - FOREVER YOUNG–2 (March 2012)
In 2013, I have also written:
LIFE IS NOT TOO SHORT and WHEN EVERYTHING & EVERYONE IS DISPOSABLE.
On Cancer: BC – BEFORE CANCER and AC – AFTER CANCER.
On the Nucleur Family: THE NUCEUR FAMILY – RELATIVELY SPEAKING and
THE NUCLEUR FAMILY – GETTING TOGETHER AND BREAKING APART
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