Two issues caught my eye in the press today. A research in schools pointed out that 1-2% of the pupils might be considered psychopatic. And physicians are allowed to break confidentiality by informing the partner of a HIV patient of that condition.
Well ...
I suggest we just give in and have a chip inplanted in our arm right away, for obviously that's where this is heading. No, I'm not against scientific research, but I do hope for the sake of the pupils that the research was completely anonymous. And I personally already changed physician twice because they could not keep their big mouth shut about a lot smaller issues than HIV. Giving them a license to blab will only be the first step. For sure, a partner has a right to know that he or she is in danger. But mark my words, next thing you know the state will claim the same right ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
my rights as a human
An old woman wants to die ... she has lived a long life, probably already contributed more than the average share in taxes. And yet the law does not allow her to die in peace. O, sure, she's allowed to jump from a building or something like that (as long as she doesn't destruct property), but this lady's jumping days are over. She would take the pills herself, nobody has to help her do that ... but merely prescribing her the pills would be illegal. Why ?
A young woman in Italy has been in coma for most of her life. She's not going to wake up. Her father has to fight for the right to ... stop her treatment ... and allow her to die a natural death. He's lucky. So is she. She does die. With the new law passed in an amazing Berlusconian hurry the same now becomes impossible. His reasoning ? She still might have conceived. Excuse me, but how exactly was she going to accomplish that ? Through a divine intervention ? Through rape by an orderly or such ?
One can't but wonder about this clinging to life. It's not understandable from any point of view. From a religious point ... why not hurry the way to the afterlife ? And from a secular view ... wouldn't you prefer a controlled exit to the - usually - messy exits we have today. We might have some less traumatized train-drivers.
As a human being I claim the right to have a dignified control over my own life, and that includes the right to a dignified death.
A young woman in Italy has been in coma for most of her life. She's not going to wake up. Her father has to fight for the right to ... stop her treatment ... and allow her to die a natural death. He's lucky. So is she. She does die. With the new law passed in an amazing Berlusconian hurry the same now becomes impossible. His reasoning ? She still might have conceived. Excuse me, but how exactly was she going to accomplish that ? Through a divine intervention ? Through rape by an orderly or such ?
One can't but wonder about this clinging to life. It's not understandable from any point of view. From a religious point ... why not hurry the way to the afterlife ? And from a secular view ... wouldn't you prefer a controlled exit to the - usually - messy exits we have today. We might have some less traumatized train-drivers.
As a human being I claim the right to have a dignified control over my own life, and that includes the right to a dignified death.
